08-30-2018, 11:07 AM
(08-30-2018, 10:41 AM)bengaloo Wrote: I would say it will end up being numerous ways. People will simply be using google a lot less for starters. When people truly figure out how their data is being stored and managed now, vs how it will be, its just going to be automatic. Google will lose some of its power over people just like they all do as technology advances. I'm not one who cares about this search biased crap, but I am concerned with how companies like google handle our data and treat us as money-making objects in general. I am concerned that a company like google stores too much important info in insecure ways. More and more people on all sides of politics are fed up with it. Google will eventually lose their easy ways of tracking peoples surfing habits and selling it to the highest bidder. Once that happens, they will lose a lot of their clout with people. Blockchain technology is going to change a lot, imo.
Just remember, even if you agree with google political views, you are still just a money-making object to them and they dont give a rats ass about anything about you except selling your data.
This is a pipe dream mixed with some ignorance of technology. Block chain is simply a buzz word people throw around to act like they are cutting edge, heck companies do it to as a way to pivot of failed business models. The issues with the decentralized net (really what you are talking about) is that is disregards people's desire for ease of use which is a core tenet of the internet. There is nothing easy about decentralization as it requires you to in fact manually interact with every online location you engage. The idea is Utopian but not practical and will not scale to the general public. People don't want to remember 15 passwords, they want one system to talk to another so they can easily operate there whole life from a single point.
There are companies trying to do this, but they are moving at a snails pace because they are figuring out adoption is just not there. As more and more tech devices are introduced into our every day life the idea of a decentralized net actually becomes less and less likely.
