I think a key fallacy that arises is the argument that software is in layman's term a template and a mirror to human creativity; citing this as indication of its boundlessness should also be noted as an indication as to why centralization will ultimately occur. It's occurred in every other aspect of society where creativity maybe noted, what argument exists against that?

Yes its alive and breathes in and out.

This. Very good point but I would argue its 2 way. Centralization and decentralization form a perfect loop. One inevitably leads to the other.

Im not totally convinced yet, with the other waves it was really clear what the value proposition was. Even Pets.com, the poster child for dotcom excess, had a purpose. Those excesses were mostly ahead of their time, the DAO token folks don't offer things that anyone wants or even understands.

one hundred percent with you on that one.

To stick with the dotcom analogy most of these tokens are more like the old network infrastructure providers say Global Crossing or Level 3. They were over-funded and they overbuilt but the network they left us was very valuable. It will be the same for a lot of the software the dao funded crowd is building.

Anything for Web 2.0 to end, its like cable television was to the Golden Era.

Yes the blockchain is going to take over. The banks are terrified.

Having to make the gun yourself is a good restriction, it takes a lot of work and time to get your head out of an impulsive state.

Sure but can you print bullets?

Can you google? Fucking Pinterest has "37 Best DIY Bullets".

Decentralisation, rebirth of the concept of governments and banks (stores of value and loans of value), the internet of money, the exchange of favours peer to peer, the recognition of favours, global decentralised online democracy, micro businesses go parabolic, communities become self sufficient, govts lose control. Its happening.

from your mouth to jah's ears

This guy is the new leader^

True though. example..I cashed out £3k yesterday just for posting on a crypto sub on reddit for a few years, 3-4 posts a week.. erc20 rewards. I use brave browser which offers free anti tracking, https upgrades, ad free browsing (inc youtube) and it pays as you go with BAT token. It covers my premium netflix monthly subscription and costs nothing.

relax, he resigned :)

Elon ain’t what he’s appearing to be.
Anyone involved with those robots needs hanging from a tree.

I've read about this before bud but never decided to do it as I felt it would be too little. Can you explain more about it, i'd love to know with regards of how active you actually were. its a very clever idea. did you pay for brave or was it free? I'll go check it out thanks for sharing :D

How do you earn money just posting on Reddit?

But like winning the lotto.
It does happen- just not to you.

nice list!

We bio engineer ourselves into organic super computers, harness the planets electromagnetic field as a server and live as gods in virtual reality.

but it won't be 'us' providing this world, it'll be engineered and controlled by a select few people who will have total control over everyone

yeah theyre called ai

ai has been in control since the 19th century, we are working for the machines, not vice versa

since religions were organized, self preserving entities that transcend all people.

And we don't need to leave the house to do it. Where do I sign?

You do realise the earth's magnetic field is weaker than a fridge magnet right xD

you have earned 1 toaken

the corporate curated a.i. justified brave new world feed that makes you yearn for the good old days of google

Hopefully a revolution 🙏

Web 5. Decentralisation of personal data. Anonymity. Buyers Markets. People realise phones arent phones and just tracking chips that post spam in your face all day so we go back to mp3 players that make calls. We reverse the inversion and regain the ability to tell human from computer and truth from fiction again.

Humanity cannot progress or achieve the things we used to while big data has us pinned down with the technology and the mind games, constantly draining every penny we have. We're so busy trying to create money with our bare hands to pay off the debt they are creating that we can't get anywhere and never will.

People are working to take apart that system as we contemplate.

For now at least we have LB.

It seems more than ever the Old guard sees the next wave coming and is way more on top of it than previous leaders. this alone makes it interesting

a dildo in the face one in the butt and a fleshlight on the cock, they will convince you you are a real person and you work for onlyfans, but there will be millions of you all stacked up as far as the eye can see.

Cybernetic implants that turn you into a computer then we will go too far and try and turn the planet into a super computer and blow ourselves up again and it will be back to painting on cave walls.

Life itself?

Neural net will likely be next. You will see the net when you want in your own eyes. Real time everything. No screens, no devices except inside you.

a lot has come and gone since the web. none of it as universal though.

When the web is fully developed, all endpoints interconnected and in harmony, I usually walk right into it and get it stuck in my hair.

Nuclear oblivion and radiation
Good night and sleep well

Surely it will be open and universal. Exactly in that order one at a time.

Reticulum is looking really promising on the privacy decentralized web front, a whole cryptography based network stack:

https://reticulum.network/

Early days, but a lot of bits going on there:
Reticulum > network stack (similar TCP or UDP)
LXMF > message protocol (similar POP or SMTP)
RNode > a long range data radio (similar wifi access point) that you can build easily with $20 hardware and start building a mesh network
Sideband/MeshChat/NomadNetwork > full featured messaging clients

Crap name tho! :) Needs more marketing

Sure, just post it on your lb page

Comparing bud & delighting viewers sounds a fun gig. I've just started doing some write-ups on LB as a mix of entertaining myself and hopefully adding something to the lb community.

10 years in lighting photos and video. you point the camera, I’ll make it look pretty!

Would be happy to be involved if I’m needed

Hey I have been smoking for pain relief for over 25 years and have recently become certified as a level 1 professional Interpener, if my reports would be useful; probably in conjunction with some one else's review just let me know.

I have linked my first report.

Take care

Puff

what languages?

Ive done some math and i think i can get it down to 25.

He's just jealous. But potentially correct. There's a great book called 'Our Final Century' by Martin Rees (a respected academic, not a conspiracist of any sort) that makes a very cogent argument for the same outcome. Along the same lines. It's all quite believable. But then again, anyone could have written the same sort of book hundreds of years ago when things looked darker still... and here we are. Smoking weed. Writing to strangers. On the internet. Big up humans! We'll be alright! They're just might not be so many of us one day...

Thanks for the book recommendation- just gone on Amazon and bought a copy!👍

true this

https://sgs.princeton.edu/00000000

Hundreds of years ago this was a fantasy. It's a miracle we're still alive.

the ocean is quite literally on fire so I'm fairly confident in saying global warming is here and not going anywhere but my money is on us destroying ourselves before it punches our ticket.

the more advanced humanity gets the more likely it be becomes we assure our own destruction. we've had a few near misses in regards to nuclear strikes already.

the most likely outcome at the moment is the US votes in another tyrant with a slightly higher iq than trump, starting the final war.

Alternative: We all upload our consciousness onto the "ark" and fire it into space.

Question for me is, how many times has this happened in earth's history?

The article says we need to get the ball rolling in 100 years as shits going to get real anywhere from 1000-10,000 years. I can really only worry about the world my kids and grand kids are going to Inherit. They are going to have to figure it out from there. Plus the current world is anxiety inducing enough for the average person and I can only do so much so I’ll leave it to the egg heads to agree on the next steps to mitigate disaster that far in the future. Who does Hawking think he is anyway, Nostradamus? Now where’s my indica?

100 years too many :/

Time doesn’t exist. Time travel will never be possible.

Labs can now accelerate particles so that they arrive before they have left so “time travel” has in our terms been proven. But the human concept of time is so warped that I think advanced aliens hearing it would fall over laughing like the robots on the Cadbury’s Smash advert😂😂😂

Would you please elaborate on time not existing?

It’s always now. Tomorrow isn’t a different time, it’s a different location of the planet.

Time travel is like real estate it's about location

Definitely exists

Says who? Never been ruled out of science. I think we can do it already plenty of people come out and said they’ve done it in secret projects etc

CIA have open documentation on successful time travelling - Should be on the web. They used 2 diff forms of time travel as well. One remote one physical. Does anyone ever listen to Art Bells old radio shows when time travellers called in. obviously a lot were fakes but entertaining.

So, if time travel is theoretically possible and we culturally live on a planet where time is money. How would refunds work?

Speaking of Next Generation this dude sounds a lot like Zefram Cochrane

And I thought it was just a bunch of bimbos and stoners out there.

Well guess what the 1st e-commerce transaction ever was...

incredible, proto-biggaz!

thats some serious rep by now

this has gotta be a node on the bigga time travel net

That was in Northern California thank you very much.

My bigga

The more things change...

Bon Jovi doesn't change much.

which are the best and reliable online sites to order in the eu and us ?

It's all done in the post and sealed in mylar. If you buy within the EU there is no customs otherwise the mustached guys have better things to do than handcuff a guy buying a small amount of cannabis. I would not recommend buying crazy amounts but I don't think that's really on offer.

thanks smartledore, I feel better now!

Sorry to contradict you, but Customs does inspect within the EU, maybe not as thoroughly as from outside, but they took my shipment from Spain.

I can second that

I don't doubt this but why not just use an EU vendor, there are several good ones on little biggy.

It seems Ireland has a watch list at some level. Lucky me, I seem to have triggered it. I don't know how much history they keep, but in the past 2 years they got 2 shipments, one shipped from within the EU with only about 9 gm, and a few gm of hash as a gift. Customs sent me a letter... blah blah, illegal. The second was an ounce from the US. A vendor I had gotten 3 successful shipments from. Btw, I got run around so long that I let time run out, and couldn't leave feedback even though I wasn't very happy with the vendor's solution.

Anyway, no letter from Customs on the tracked ounce. But now almost every package I get, especially from the US, is opened by customs... gets to me with customs tape all over it. Joke's on them, I'm disabled, and do a lot of shopping online! I hope they like going through all my personal stuff!

Even Customs doesn't do anything more than throw it away if they find it. I heard that from a person whose job is finding contraband for customs.You're about to pop your cherry. What you're feeling is the same thing l felt, and everybody else here when it comes to that first order. I was certain that it was going to be a ripoff. I've never been happier about being wrong.

Depends on what country you're living in the EU. They came knocking on my door.

Someone here had a moment of clarity when it comes to spending thousands of dollars to bust someone for an ounce of weed. Nobody can justify doing it. Sorry to hear that. Hopefully, someday the EU will realize it as well.

Dude I was wondering the same thing