{"id":176,"date":"2017-09-12T09:17:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T09:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=176"},"modified":"2017-09-12T09:17:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T09:17:47","slug":"how-bitcoins-blockchain-could-power-an-alternate-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"How Bitcoin\u2019s Blockchain Could Power an Alternate Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cThere is a tendency in computer-land to seek technical solutions to political problems,\u201d Ceglowski says. \u201cIn my opinion, the focus on the blockchain (and related ideas) falls into that misguided category. The idea that we should look to algorithms and technology to reclaim our freedoms is fundamentally undemocratic. It presupposes a technical elite who would \u2018fix the Internet\u2019 for everyone else. While I can see how this appeals to romantic ideas of hacking the system, I see it as a dangerous trend at worst, and a distraction at best.\u201cWe are terrible at predicting the social outcomes of technological innovation. There\u2019s no reason Bitcoin-like distributed systems would be immune from that rule. I say let\u2019s wise up and actually fight this battle on the level where it belongs.\u201dCeglowski\u2019s argument is surely worth braking for as we race down the blockchain road. A world in which math secures all our property, communications and identities looks cool. Maybe it will solve some of our problems. It might even be better than what we have now.The question to ask is, do these blockchain-based enhancements of our technologies end up giving us more freedom and initiative? Or will a world of \u201cdistributed autonomous organizations,\u201d empowered financial algorithms and bots that own themselves only hem in our human sphere of control?It could be exciting to sit back and watch the future drive itself. But it might be smart to keep our eyes on the road and our hands on the wheel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/backchannel\/how-bitcoins-blockchain-could-power-an-alternate-internet-bb501855af67\">How Bitcoin\u2019s Blockchain Could Power an Alternate Internet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is a tendency in computer-land to seek technical solutions to political problems,\u201d Ceglowski says. \u201cIn my opinion, the focus on the blockchain (and related ideas) falls into that misguided category. The idea that we should look to algorithms and technology to reclaim our freedoms is fundamentally undemocratic. It presupposes a technical elite who would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17,16,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blockchain-society.science\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}