They will setup DRM, or render the full site in canvas, or with wasm, or something, or requires a TPM trusted signatured in an approved web browser or some shit.
That was going to be WEI [1] but they shelved it for now. I expect they will be more subtle with the next project release after it gets renamed.
Seriously though, I actually think that the effects of mass digital information on society are going to be very, uh, interesting going forward.
I wonder about the people whose parents have been documenting their lives on FB since they were born, or the kids who have never spent more than a few hours away from their smart phones.
Do you think that someone at the FBI, inspired by https://xkcd.com/2910/, will be checking the IP addresses of the Wikipedia editors who got there before the ambulances did?
In 3 years it will also come complete with fake images, diagrams, photos, sound bites and video clips.
We'll all be locked in to walled gardens (figuratively) since anything out on the wild/open/unverified internet will just be fake. This is what could rescue traditional media if they play their cards right. Providing genuine content by authenticated and verified-human authors.
"Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. […] I hunt for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar. Hundreds of files show up, and it takes 15 minutes to unravel them"
Call me paranoid but y’all seem petty unfazed by the seriousness of what’s being presented here.
Google and Facebook are going to stop growing in the next ten years which means unless cars start driving themselves soon, the gravy train is coming to a screeching halt.
Don't worry. Google and the CIA have your back.
/duck and covers from incoming thought police
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