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Marcus Petz's avatar

That is a really great description of the process with a worked example for people to follow.

I saw this" This “cloud,” unlike the one you now have to pay to be part of and has access to every aspect of your life, is truly open source, simultaneously benefiting everyone 24/7.

When we consider the blessed synchronicities that emerge from trusted third-party connections – finding a job, a mate, a place to live, building a business or project, forming a network – we can only imagine how these trusted networks amplified by trusted technology could accelerate these group and network synchronicities throughout an entire community."

and was struck by the techno-utopian tone. I am minded of the book The Circle (I did not see the film) and the series called Black Mirror. These, although fiction, show how things can go wrong. We see that more and more, but perhaps that magnification is due to a culture of separation. For example we see AI to help people find work actually excludes those who did not use AI and Linked in to make their presence online. And in many cases they are people who have a different race, age, heritage from the algorithm developed one. They become more marginalised and not more included. e.g. dating profiles that prompt the same few men to be proposed to many women and thus make dating culture less about getting to know someone and more about competition in which men can be cruel and women fail to find a satisfactorily deep engagement (at least the research I have seen suggests this is what is happening).

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Poyom Riles's avatar

Thanks for sharing this Richard. We have been in Zoom rooms together and this is just another reminder to me that I would love to connect with you one-on-one. This is exactly the kind of solution I was looking for when we were developing https://www.thesource.directory/ - Hopefully when we are both less busy we will be able to connect.

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