How did the Internet changed?
Some thoughts about current state of Global Network
This article is intended to capture few thoughts about new Internet paradigm in which we are living and also expand the previous essay - “Is Internet making us Stupid?”.
The Zoom Changes
When I watched the movie Constantine on TV last night during Christmas break, I had a strange feeling. Just to clarify, I am generation which grow-up together with YouTube and Facebook. We adopted it on high-school circa around 2008, so I remember the old Internet experience as well as the CRT Monitors, Open-Source and Free Model.
When I watched the movie in TV yesterday, I did felt some strange different experience than before. To describe it, when I see some scene which is in the Movie like drowning someone in water or killing by knife, I feel so weirdly shaky like it would be reality and not movie. It’s much more real to me now than before.
Because I can compare the same movie and experience I remember from before 2020, I realized what has changed. It was the covid lockdown experience.
More precisely, it was the Zoom! I now understand, that my body reacts to TV Movies on screen as it would be real life. It’s because I had experience with Zoom (Teams) meetings during covid lockdown and the things which happens on the screen during Zoom or any other Remote Video calls are for me now indistinguishable between TV and real life!
My brain or my mind do believe, that what is happening on Video can be real-life stream which means, that the people can interact with you! I experienced it - it was the Twitch, the Zoom classes and Teams calls. Before, it was all just pictures which are static and no matter what you do, they are still same and don't change. Since they introduced and force everyone into the Remote Work during the Lockdown, we now adopted the idea, that what you say behind screen can affect the video and real-life of persons on other end!
This is the reason, why I have so strange and emotional experience to movie which should be only fiction! We mixed reality with fiction!
My brain needs now few minutes of cognitive energy, to understand what is real fiction and what is just a movie. By default, you can't tell - besides some old movies.
If I adopted that during covid lockdown, I wonder how many people now sees movies as tutorial or real-life documents. It can be truly dangerous, if people can't tell what is reality and what fiction. And I don't mention the experience with smartphones, when you just simply make video call. The changes for brain are enormous I think.
The Internet mutated into military surveillance network
As I have some time off now, probably I am just starting to understand, what all happened in last 4 years and the implication of it in real life.
To give some background - I know that someone rewrite the Word Wide Web manifesto. For me as a person it’s kind of hard to grasp it, as Word Wide Web is used by billions of users now. So, it means that they really affect billions of persons? Probably. I am still grasping the idea of Covid Coup so I might see it on lower scale then it really is.
Just to give some thoughts, which I do still remember from the era before and after the coup.
The Internet originally was DARPA NET (United States Department of Defense).
We already talked about the 5th Generation WarFare and I think all the evidences are there. In this case, is it possible, that Internet was taken back by USA Deparment of Defense and become back the Military Network?
The implications of this would be huge. I am not sure but the informations which we are gathering even with involvement of the Censorship-Industrial Complex and the joining of Corporate Big Tech with Security Agencies are pointing to that.
What this means? If Internet by default, is now controlled by governments and secret services, it means a lot.
Basically, it completely reversed the concept of liberation and freedom it had before? So now it’s tool of government and secret services to control and oppress the citizens? Is this the global-technocracy which everyone is referring to? I do think it might be.
The Concept of Internet 2010
If I remember correctly, around 2010 the concept of Internet was something like decentralized network which was consisting of independent nodes which communicated via network. First with IP address and then via DNS and domain names, which were controlled by national registrators - globally it was ICANN.
To search Internet without knowing exact IP address or domain name, crawlers were created and catalogs, which gathered links to websites and started to index them. Most famous were Yahoo and Google.
This concept changed around 2016 with introduction of smartphones, video and social networks. People stopped to use Internet as peer to peer network and adopted a middle man.
The middle man was for example Facebook, YouTube or GMail. People didn't wanted to have their own server at home and host it by them selfs but they opted for client-service relationship. This meant, that the clients uploaded their data to the server and the server then served the data to users according to their will and make sure, that the data are secured and accessible only to authenticated or correct users.
When we look on it from the different perspective, this is one huge concept change as our trust is now dependent on the integrity of the middle man (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo) to whom we pay (either by our private data or by cash) and we trust them, that they fulfil their terms and conditions.
It's not anymore peer to peer network but we now use only middle man to access or store our data. We simply lost or hand-over the control to them completely.
If we take it to next level as it happened in 2016 when there was Cloud, Drive, Docs, Spotify and other online services. We switched from the ownership of data - to download or copy (burn on CD, DVD, VHS), to pay the provider for privilege to use our data or rent it and sometime we even pay with our data, that we can access them or they will store it.
I don't really see it as anything liberating now. Like do we have to pay the till end of our lives or we will completely lose our digital identity, which is now mandatory or taken as necessary?
Is the Big Tech the World Government Now?
During last 4 years I had some strange feeling, that it’s all about the Tech. I don't know why but the Elon Twitter takeover changed whole elections. Also the whole mania around the QR codes, Digital ID and others. Like why do they need it? They probably even have it now, as they can stamp you with cookies and together with IP address or Browser fingerprint to track anyone. Also they have complete profile, location and everything on silver plate in very structural form on any social media platform.
I mean, is it possible, that the one who now control Internet (Search Engine, Social Media or Mainstream Media) basically controls the whole population?
I would say that it could be true.
Like if Facebook, Twitter or others are directly under Governmental or Secret Service control, then anyone who is there is basically pro-government party? And does it make sense, to use network which is directly connected to government and secret services? Wasn't it much harder for them before, when they didn't had all identities and records of citizens at one place?
Wasn't it harder for governments to control citizens if they didn't had all their data and location by default? I seen even map on Facebook or Google, where they track completely all movement or pictures which you send there.
So the result of introduction of Social Media and Web 2.0. was complete break down of whole positive things why the Internet was build in first place?
When you think about it, every kid now have in pocket smartphone with Google inside, if government can control it and we seen that during Covid, then they can activate microphone or track the people by default? Same with Microsoft or others.
When everyone uses middle man as a gate to Internet (middle = single server or platform), then you simply as government go to middle men and ask him for the user details? What is then the benefit of it? Like Internet with single Server where everyone is connecting to? From all websites billions users will connect directly to 8 servers? And if we take down the 8 domain names, then the whole Internet is gone?
Sometime I hear answers like - but without it we wouldn't be able to communicate with the people from distant places.
I do understand that but if the network is completely controlled by governments or secret services does it really make sense?
If we are really talking about dismantling technocracy, shouldn't we start with the most obvious tools we see in everyday life?
It would need for sure more analysis, I am positive that those two tutorials are way out but the question is like what is the future of Internet? What exactly it should serve to and who now controls the development of Internet or the whole structure?
And am I the only one, who is asking this questions now? Like isn't it strange? Before I remember, many people talked about it I think.