Ryan Merkley: Online video -- annotated, remixed and popped

PLURALITY

A 14 minute film

Directed by: Dennis Liu

Written by: Ryan Condal

Produced by: Jonathan Hsu, Dennis Liu
Rick Falkvinge writes:
"This short film ...had me absorbed from the get-go. When it was over, it felt like 30 seconds had passed. That in itself is remarkable – but the short film also communicates a very chilling insight into where we’re going. The movie is about ever-increasing surveillance, and how it always ends up where we don’t want it – with quite a few surprises baked in.
In the movie, DNA scanners are everywhere, and links your DNA with centralized access control lists to everything. Predictably, it started out as a convenience, until legislation stipulated that law enforcement can and shall have access to all of it. The plot twists towards the end are gripping."
IEML, Information Economy MetaLanguage A symbolic system able to exploit the computational power, the capacity of memory and the ubiquity of the digital medium. This symbolic system is called IEML, for Information Economy MetaLanguage. It is :

(1) an artificial language that translates itself automatically into natural languages,

(2) a metadata language for the collaborative semantic tagging of digital data,

(3) a new addressing layer of the digital medium (conceptual addressing) solving the semantic interoperability problem,

(4) a programming language specialized in the design of semantic networks,

(5) a semantic coordinate system of the mind (the semantic sphere), allowing the computational modeling of human cognition and the self-observation of collective intelligences.

I agree with @tawnuac who would "enrich or publish data to RDF"

as I think that centralized taxonomies will always fall short for some

segment of the population. But we all belong to multiple communities, each

of which may have it's own "language" for describing elements of the world

they are most interested in. As such, we choose to place more attention on

car care from our automotive club and child care from our family and school

moms we trust. Therein lies the key: the trust we place in different

people and communities is domain specific, and as mentioned above, the very

definition of "domain" may vary from person to person. In the above

examples, "car care" communities will vary depending upon whether I drive a

'70 VW microbus or a '12 Lexus RX Hybrid, and "child care" communities will

vary if I have a toddler or a tween. And of course, the levels of trust we

assign even to similar communities is a very personal matter.

So my thinking is that at the (decentralized) core of a decentralized

community will be a collection of personalized and community-centric trust

metrics. Switching point of view, I believe what we need to design are

secure, open source "Reputation Calculation Engines" (RCE) that operate on

collections of digitally signed RDF triples (or "reputes"). Note that the

digital signatures can come from anonymous or pseudonymous sources, but

they are essential in calculating reputation to prevent spoofs, floods,

etc. An RCE will in general ignore - or provide less weight to - reputes

that come from short-lived anonymous sources, and apply greater reputation

strength to sources signed from reputable sources.

Note that any addressible object in this reputation-based economy - from

signatures to care repair companies to RCEs - can have their own

domain-specific reputes attached to them. I expect there will be some very

well-known RCEs, and Google-like search engines that can point you to those

most trusted, but as we are all different, we can each have our private

RCEs that assign X reputation to RCE1 and Y reputation to RCE2 within any

domain, and further increase reputation for some signatures and decrease

others. IMO, only when each of us is in charge of who we trust - and we

don't have trust dictated to us - can a decentralized, privacy-enhanced

system work.

Fabio Cecin

Namecoin is a an alternativeDomain Name System that is based onBitcoin technology (the Namecoin network reaches consensus every few minutes as to which names/values have been reserved or updated). Each user has its own copy of the fulldatabase, which attempts to reduce censorship on the DNS level. The use of public-key cryptography also means that only the owner is allowed to modify a name in thedistributed database. The first and most popular Namecoin project isDot-bit.
Namecoin is a peer-to-peer generic name/value datastore system based onBitcoin technology (a decentralized cryptocurrency). It allows you to:

• 
  Securely register and transfer arbitrary names, no possible censorship!
  
• 
  Attach values to the names (up to 1023 bytes)
  
• 
  Trade and transact namecoins, the digital currency NMC.
  

Dot-BIT, the first project using namecoin, is building a domain name system (DNS) using the .bit TLD. Our goal is to spread .bit domains by providing resources and tools to the community, from developers to end users.

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