Making Things Behave Properly

This title should be longer - Making Digital Objects in a Network Behave Properly. Or, Designing a Better Internet. Such as the IPFS.

The Internet happened by accident. Many people cooperated in its development, building on each other's ideas. Then, all of a sudden, in the Nineties - everything fit together, into a workable system!

Everyone realized something important had happened, and lots of money was going to be made because of it. But they overlooked how much it would change human society.

Now, after these changes are beginning to happen, they have changed their minds - and want to go back to the simpler times before the Net. But they cannot - history, including technical history, only runs in one direction - forward!

What are these changes to Society? The switch from Competition to Cooperation. The Industrial World was based on Competition - on people (and nations) trying to get the better of other nations. This resulted in huge riches - and huge problems, that could not be solved inside that system.

The Computer, with its networks (the Internet and the Wireless) is a sharing economy - where everyone thrives by giving things away, so other people can use them. This has created new problems, because these free gifts often contain hidden costs - the Trojan Horse comes to mind.

To put this another way - to use the Computer's Artificial Intelligence - our Intelligence has to better - which often it is not.