Wanting an entity, that historically has been a brutal mass murderer, to be the moral compass of a society seems like a bit of a contradiction. I understand that this may be a difficult concept, but perhaps we can do things a better way. Perhaps instead of looking to place more and more power into the hand of an ever smaller and smaller few isn’t the answer. Perhaps people aren’t the violent savages we’ve been led to believe they are? Perhaps the true violent savages are those people we continually put into power?

You bought the propaganda but have none of the facts. The internet is the evolution of a new governance model, Omniarchy that is emerging from the ground up. The political states historical role is coming to an end, they all know it, that is why they are desperately fighting to control it and limit it. It is time the ole pyramidal model arising form the simian brain be overthrown once and for all.

The Singularity society doesn’t need politicians as it is based on a new holographic paradigm.

I’ve posted situation about this elsewhere in various FB groups and G+, but this article I expanded the groups with whom I shared it. I’m hoping the word get’s out very quickly, and very soon, although I don’t know if we can make a change as the Internet users of the world did with SOPA, ACTA, and PIPA. Time is short, this effort is global by the world’s governments and at least 700 global corporations, and people are unaware this is even happening.

Perhaps KurzweilAI can start showing people how to create ways of communicating outside of the present Internet and Internet 2? DIY tech? Dark nets? Something else? Anything?

If the U.N. and it’s multitude of fascist governments control our communications, we are ‘all’ screwed.

Best,
Kevin

What the net does from one persoect9ve is asks for or publishes information. Its arranged in various forms. The moment systems are sophisticated enough to generate information, no other source will be needed. ie the new system which could be housed in your own personal machine, could build any facts you want by working them out.
This is not as weird as it seems, we are discussing simulations of the cosmos taking a finite number. The Bekenstein bound used to be involved in calculations but may have detractiors.

By Moore’s Law we should be able to simulate or universe in just over 1000 years, but this discounts the advance of quantum computers (one with under 200 qbits will outperform all computers on earth at present).
My guess is that we’ll achieve it in the early 2020′s. Nick Bostrom and Frank Tipler have brought forth calculations of required processing power.
But everything else will be moving and people will be morphing in complexity. If this happens relatively, some form of interaction may be profitable so the internet or medium could continue past then, tending to perfect laws.

We live in a small social world, there is no denying that….people talk about privacy all the time and complain that we continously don’t have any. On the grand scale however, I ask how much one thinks they have now….almost all of us know somebody who knows and cares for us, have a family (not in the sense of having kids, but in general)….I’m thinking, when I’m expressing myself like this, of ‘privacy’ in a much much more broader scale.

The place we live, the people we meet, the taxes we pay, the TV channels we watch, the car we drive….every single thing we do expresses something about ourselves to somebody; somebody I’ve never can probably construct a whole profile of me just from the data on the internet — in that extreme sense, we have no privacy….we never really did. Our lives are built socially, and even if we live very solitary lives, there is somebody out there who knows and is keeping tabs on you.

That may sound like an exaggerated way of looking at the word, but I feel this way when I hear some people complaining about privacy…because it feels in a sense like they act like, in a greater sense anyway, like they actually have any. Because, as I tried to express before, the only way to have the exaggerated sense of privacy some people wish they had….well….you’d have to live “off the grid” as I expressed — living like a nomad or something in a lifestyle that will completely unnecessary and probably very difficult. There are probably several who do live this sort of life, and while far be it from me to criticize, I feel the need to point out this is unnecessary.

Of course, truthfully, most people are thinking like this, even those complain endlessly about privacy — they are happy about the benefits and happiness they receive by being and living in the social world that we do – they just worry about their privacy in a smaller scale because they don’t want to lose more of that, and a big issue with that is, responsibility and how much they put out there. In general though, on a grander scale, the point I was trying to make out is how vague “privacy” is in this day and age, why that is mostly a good thing, and that it undoubtedly will continue….because as the world continues to shrink, the benefits increase — what benefits? Everything really….the ability to express ourselves (the Internet is one such example — communication like no other, but it brought in a huge range of issues) for one…the relationship between the government and individuals will increase (which of course, is more complicated then a single sentence could ever express, but their are scores of obvious benefits — I like knowing I could call 911 and people will help me if I need it)….

Think about it — if Kurzweil’s vision is correct, privacy will continue to cease to exist, but the intimacy and empowerment it brings when everyone is so connected will be unbelievable. Is it vastly more complicated then this and liberty/privacy still thinks to ever-fight for? Of course they are, I wasn’t marginalizing that….I was speaking from a broad historical sense however — the world has become smaller and more connected and it’s been a give and take; constantly a huge range of issues…my point was to always express, despite that, that the good far outweighs the bad – I’m happy to be born in this complicated small social world….and while both the good and bad will amplify when this progresses, I’m not sure I’d mind the world of the future in which power become even more connected.

1.How permanent is the “Internet”? Will there be many internets (lower case) and if so, how will they communicate?
2. What happens when the Internet forks (as in Iran and China)?
3. What will be the future of Internet2 (http://www.internet2.edu/) and how will it impact the Internet and will that be called Internet1?
4. What is and will be the relationship of these multiple internets to the global economy and its control structure?
5 Will internets become like today’s media networks, competing for income, influence, and control?
6. How much power does ITU have?
7. How much control do the 13 root DNS servers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server) have and who controls them?
8. How much influence does the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) have (http://www.icann.org/)?

Which benefits are you speaking about?

“Privacy is an illusion in many ways already, and I’m not complaining…”

Doctor: The patient is ill, kill him!
Nurse: But…
Doctor: He wouldn’t be here if he were healthy!
Nurse:…
Doctor:Dammit Judy!Give me that syringe!

Patient:oh….

Doctor: Operation successful, patient dead!Let’s call it a day.

“It will be the end of the internet as we know it”

It will end anyway, so who cares?Change is a fact of life, so we might as well come to terms with it now.I hate it to break it to you, but someday you (as you know yourself), too, will end.

Btw: The internet is already quite different from -say- 10 years ago.

And who cares if a foreign country is a dictatorship: The only thing that is really important to non-citizens of said country is it’s foreign policy/policies which have an effect on other countries.Something in which self-proclaimed “democracies” are not any more trustworthy than others.

I don’t trust a country that proclaims corperations to be people to regulate the internet in “our” best interest.

The best thing would be -imho- to just let the non-governmental users continue to “evolve” the internet.

As I say: Have a nice day.

Note that’s exactly what the proponents of the “new world order” want to install: everybody is given the illusion of feeling happy, but only as long as he adopts the official ideology. And with the total control that goes with it, there may be more similarities with a system like in N. Korea than with what we are still benefitting now.

liberty and security….these are important concerns, yes, but essentially, I question how much freedom and privacy one thinks they even have already in this day and age. Unless you’d like to live “off the grid”, the simple (or hard, depending on you) truth is that we live in a small social world that is getting more smaller and social as time goes on….the individual becomes more empowered overtime, but through it, issues of privacy and security continue to grow….It’s a give and take that we must learn to deal with.

Privacy is an illusion in many ways already, and I’m not complaining…do I care about privacy? Of course I do…but again, the benefits we get from this ever-shrinking world are too great to ignore…again, unless I chose to chase the past, live “off the grid” in an unnecessarily difficult and hard lifestyle for the sake of pursuing some illusion of privacy, the bigger picture is…we have “no” privacy already and that will increasingly grow, but with it, the benefits will be further and further empowerment and opportunities for happiness and fulfillment.

Privacy and Liberty are things to always fight for, and like SOPA, we can succeed….but we can’t miss the bigger picture, and both the good and bad (depending on your viewpoint) it brings.

We have more power then we realize, as you said….people need to be more properly informed and into politics and staying on-top of what’s going on — they can’t just only get into what’s going on for things like a presidential election every 4 years….I’ve tried to join and sign up on so many different online activist groups and causes this past year and it’s insane how many stupid ideas come up that I disagreed with, and the thing is, all of it is unknown unless you actually start paying attention.

That’s not to say that I’m making the government like the big bad guy….I don’t believe in trading liberty for security – we can have both, and we need them to do what is necessary sometimes for our own good….the trick is, making sure they only actually do that; hence, “watching the Watchmen” and making sure they don’t kill us trying to ‘protect us’.

Even so, their will undoubtedly be more things like SOPA that will attempt to silently get passed that will inhibit people’s freedom nonetheless….people must continue to be vigilant and ‘watch the Watchmen’ in order to ensure this doesn’t happen.

Several months ago, there was a mysterious explosion followed by smoke near the Indiana/Michigan border. There were many eyewitnesses and plenty of people tried to post pics and videos taken with phones. Guess what? You couldn’t find any of them online. There were written reports of military helicopters and ground vehicles, but no visual evidence online. How is that possible? Because the government already does everything in their power to control the Internet as best they can. They can’t control it completely.