hitchhiker999

It's also important to remember that we've never had such a powerful, established and fully centralized media.

The tech and the reach they have would give any dictator a chubby.

Power corrupts.

Fingers crossed.

.. many would strongly advise against avoiding those emotions, and possibly getting help / ideas / guidance on how best to defuse their affect on you.

There's a significant difference between understanding the political horrors, or knowing that cancer is a problem - versus being terrified of thinking about these realities.

What's terrifying is with all these professional analysts in here, yours is the first comment I've seen that asks this obvious question.

First thing I checked, sadly missing considering the amount of medical field data on it coming out of China/East.

I got to this article via RSS. Using Start.me to organize a lovely page full of feeds.

We've needed a solution like this for almost a decade. Thank you, thank you. Love the minimalist vibe to it, gets the job done, transparent + reduction in complexity for user = safety.

Would you ever consider creating a mesh network manager (to replace horrors like Hamachi)? It could allow people to generate the keys conveniently/safely and connect servers/clients in a distributed, non-centralized manner easily.

meh. // as a programmer for 37 years, and a person heavily familiar with technology -- meh.

That is 80s level crap right here, he didn't seem to know people yet. Fair enough, but still.

The future is nothing like this man thinks, plus he doesn't understand the power of organic tech (the brain) - or the idea that any intelligence is hampered not by speed but by the density and depth of the "graph" it has to explore to provide context for any given answer.

Just my 2c -- I'm sure I will get hammered for it sometime in the future.

As a developer of 36+ years, I have 'some' authority to say this. You made some good points but stop! I think the other commenters here have patiently covered the salient points. You work in an industry that is evolving.

Great! We're all old here it seems (I'm 42), a few of us joined back in the 90s...

It started as a great human experiment, such fun. It became co-opted by commercial enterprise. The two largest gateways into the experience are now Google and Facebook. Really, what did we expect would happen? Probably best to take it back now.