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What Does the 'Next Internet' Look Like?
Kraisch writes with a link to the Guardian website, which again revisits the subject of reconstructing the internet. This time the question isn't whether it should be done, but what should the goals of a redesign be? From the article: "'There's a real need to have better identity management, to declare your age and to know that when you're talking to, say, Barclays bank, that you're really doing so,' said Jonathan Zittrain, professor of internet governance and regulation at the Oxford Internet Institute. At the moment we are still using very clumsy methods to approach such problems. The result: last year alone, identity theft and online fraud cost British victims an estimated £414m, while one recent report claimed 93% of all email sent from the UK was spam ... Many ideas revolve around so-called "mesh networks", which link many computers to create more powerful, reliable connections to the internet. By using small meshes of many machines that share a pipeline to the net instead of relying on lots of parallel connections, experts say they can create a system that is more intelligent and less prone to attack."
In America there is no reason to drown in debt except for the extremely poor people. There is no public transportation infrastructure here. So the poorest of the poor are just one fender bender, one alternator failure, one radiator failure or one medical emergency from bankruptcy. Their car breaks down, they cant get to work, they get into very high interest rate credit and get into an never ending circle of debt. But for this section, everyone else is drowning in debt because of their own poor financial skills.
People drowning in debt still have digital cable and cell phones, they eat out in restaurants, live in huge homes they cant afford ... I dont have much sympathy for folks who borrow without knowing their limits.
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There are already several businesses and at least one government who have 100% access to your surfing habits today.
There just needs to be ubiquitous and robust means to confirm that Anonymous Coward 2058436658 is Anonymous Coward 2058436658. Whether you attach that identification to a real name & information (or not) should be immaterial.
I'm divided over any attempts to create a mandatory means of identifying internet users by age. On the one hand, maybe the government will create a walled off under 18 internet, which means the "think of the children" crowd can leave the rest of us alone...
OTOH, people under the age of 18 have lots to contribute to and learn from their elders.
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The word you were looking for is "Viruses." They existed on UNIX before Microsoft was a wet dream.
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