A vision for social networks and digital habitats

2022-09-06 - written as a personal note while working on Regeneratio

A rough outline of themes to explore with Regeneratio (maybe a table of contents for a book).

Part 1: Pieces of the Puzzle

1. Open Source is not enough, we need malleability
2. Value and information flows should be as aligned as possible
3. Data collection is inevitable
4. What's your source? Social Systems for Filtering
5. A future of Deep Fakes
6. Rebooting the Web of Trust
7. Trusting Trust
8. Electronic Voting and Liquid Democracy
9. Social Networks go Local
10. The end of Fake News
11. Data ownership is dead. Long live Data Locality!
12. 3D Spaces might not help productivity
13. Hyper-realism: VTubing to cross the uncanny valley
14. How the cypherpunk/blockchain movement is getting co-opted
15. A ten-year vision of a solarpunk future with decentralized peace

Part 2: Economics

1. Music, video, text, visual games, art, intelectual property and you
2. Avoiding the middlemen: with tips, authors get 100%
3. Liquid data and energy: ISPs, Electricity, and the Lighting Network
4. The Copyright Establishment
5. Patents go global, Brands get local
6. Zero knowledge and the end of data leaks
7. The limits of privacy
8. How local-first data prevents large-scale analysis

Part 3. The Real Meta

1. Can't make software without hardware
2. Global spaceship: Earth regulation, or how to end war, disinformation, and climate change
3. Food, shelter, clothing
4. Info, tools, and social supply chains
5. Internet, Energy, and Materials
6. Research and Medicine funding
7. Waste management
8. Innovation and Financing for the future
9. Social Status and New Idiots
10. How to lead the mainstream