Our friend TaskMaster asked us a very important question today and I hope you will take the time to respond to him also. This is what he asked;
@taskmaster4450le : "How is technology going to change the world?"
As someone born during this transition I have become aware that my education was a product of a variety of attempts every year of my schooling to adjust the curriculum from previous years and try something new. I was a smart kid no doubt but every year from 91 - 04 it was something new. I was fortunate to have this opportunity but it was not conventional in the way it was for my parents. Nothing about how they saw the world was accurate for me, and due to my interest in technology I was always at least a few paces ahead of them.
I remember using a pencil sharpener, a typewriter, hours of practicing cursive (something they insisted I would need to know, even though I still have never needed it), being given a calculator for the first time in grade 4. Every year new computers were added by the schools and we were given time to 'play', but it wasn't long before I knew more about how it worked than the teachers did. At first we were given freedom to use this new device and discover what it could do, but after a few years it became something that we had to do specific things on, and certain things were not allowed. I learned at a young age how to create folders and save files, we used floppy discs and I discovered that every student had his own network folder to saving files into.
I taught myself a variety of misunderstood skills and by middle school earned an undeserved bad rap when it comes to computers, due to perceptions of a generation that lived in a time which has long since passed. My introduction to technology was in a time that everything was in constant flux and changing by the day, and I learned early on that I could educate myself using the tools we have at our fingertips. Since college I have endeavored to learn as much as possible and soak up all the information worth learning in this world via the internet. Wikipedia was one of the most important developments in the history of the internet, but I believe the most important was Hive, for some of the same reasons as Wiki and even more.
Hive is the new 3.0 data layer as I have previously suggested; just as we began mapping the web using http pages, we can now remap the decentralized web using Hive-posts if we choose to link them together in creative ways. Technology is changing the world in a multitude of ways that would take novels to explore but I can touch on a few more momentarily. Firstly technology like Hive will allow us to save the internet from the grasp of insecure outdated centralized organizations. It will but the power in the hands of the individual user who now has choices. Will we build the social networks of the future on lycos or geocities, in 2022? No, we will be using Hive based dapps like Ecency , PeakD, LeoFinance and more that are being developed today.
The technology that is being created right now will also alter the landscape as new possibilities open up. Every individual is a node in the creator-spaces of the web, and Hive levels the playing field so that anyone can sign up and hopefully make at least one web page post on www3. This technology is in my opinion the most important, which is why I am here. But there is other technology that is disrupting our spaces. There are advantages and disadvantages to every technological innovation, and we have to weigh the costs and benefits to make educated decisions. My last point will be that with regard to social media we have come to that point of decision. We were forced to choose once again to agree to terms that changed, and the benefits of bookface are held ransom; you agree to be banned if we do not like what you post, if you continue to use this platform after October 2020.
Do you agree? Coerced consent is not a joke, not to be taken lightly. For a while it was just fine on social, and then after the election, past attempts at fact checking I took last year turned against my interests and my account had experienced 5 consecutive 90 day livestreaming bans, now in 2021 previous violations are being used to justify another 90 day livestreaming ban and "no advertising" either. Why would I want to advertise on such a counterproductive website? Younger me would just use a different website.
Login somewhere else. The old message boards were good but the data was not archived and would disappear every once and a while. In middle school I used FortuneCity to upload my html web pages and they didn't censor me or prevent me from broadcasting my simple gif pages. No! It was a different time, and now we are in different times again, and tomorrow it will be different also. I am used to these changes because they have been constant in my life, nothing ever stays the same, and I refuse to ever stop learning. I have continued to study all that I can every single day since I left school, thanks to technology that allows me to connect to the internet.
Hive is my last hope for the web, web3 as Hive might be the next most important innovation that I have seen. 3D printing is also cool, I am collecting objects and once it is affordable and perfected then I can begin replication of the most useful designs. I have believed ardently since high school that we need to seek out the best ideas and build the kind of future we really want to live in, for the next generations but also for ours.
