Internet

Web browsers and apps allow companies to run all of their millions of different software interfaces on your device; an experience which is inconsistent, invasive, insecure, inefficient, and often malfunctioning. 

There is a learning curve to using each one of these different apps for every different thing we do, which is unreasonable. Different settings in different places, uncontrolled popups, advertising, terms and conditions, privacy & security permissions, and almost always the intention of the app is to make money.

The internet, like the economy, has also grown organically, layers on top of layers, some good and some not so good.  Now that we know what we need and what we don't need from the internet, we can simplify the whole thing.

The recent advances in AI (Artificial Intelligence) are absolutely world-changing.  There are many kinds of AI that have been around for many years that are designed to drive cars, recognize images, generate images, basically anything that involves recognizing a pattern, but recently there has been a breakthrough in what's known as Generative AI, which can communicate with us in natural language, and is also programmed to have short and long-term memory so that we can carry on conversations.

A text or verbal interface to the entire internet means that you can simply describe what you want to do, instead of there being a user interface (app or website) for each function.  The beauty and power of generative AI is that it understands what you mean, and it understands how to use the internet, so it's the perfect go-between.  

What that looks like in practice is that you have a virtual friend you can talk to whenever you want (like hey Google or Siri).

You will be able to talk to your AI about anything, or ask them to perform internet tasks like “show me instructions on how to fix this thing”, or “update my status - I'm working an hour late today”, or “what is John's status”, or “read me my last text from John”.

On a technical note, I am describing a decentralized social and business media server with a unified AI interface, something I am writing about in detail in separate work.  Suffice it to say here, that there is a personal secure gateway between each citizen and the whole rest of the internet.  This architecture simplifies how we use the internet to provide countless comfort & control benefits.

For example, the telephone, SMS, email, and even chat-app networks are completely insecure and are hotbeds for fraud.  The only solution to blocking unknown communications is to block unknown communications.  Any communications should be unblocked by default between citizens within a collective, and external contacts should require explicit unblocking. 

The internet could be beautiful, and will be.  AI will change everything.  Augmented reality will replace our phones and TVs and bring us new interfaces to our environment and each other that we never imagined.  It will be a safe internet, allowing us to completely control dangerous, offensive or otherwise unwanted content.