Every day, I see like-minded or just -minded people being censored or threatened for speaking. I see habits of self-censorship and fear worming their way under our skin. We are being held hostage by our need to talk to our friends and family online. We see political campaigns blatantly manipulated by tech giants, certain news disappearing and major figures getting their life’s work banned. This won’t be so easy with Holochain.
I think Holochain will buy us the time and bring us the tools to save the world. I wonder what Holochain will do with rapidly developing and rapidly devolving countries. Once we can truthfully and openly talk to each other, we can bring real solutions to our problems.
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I used to work in the IoT/Smart home industry. I am well aware of the responsibility of having tools at your disposal that gives me as a vendor control of other peopls’s data, habits, locations, even control of their devices, home etc.
With the proliferation of social media, mobile shopping/location/msg/video apps, CCTV/computer vision, smart speakers, big data/AI etc - there are simply TOO MANY data points on every individuals that are collected by centralised commercial or government entities that can compromise both privacy and quality of life (if use against them).
I do see the trend of “big brother” emerging. Tech giants become more and more powerful. Governments having the ability to control aspects of their citizen life. What will happen 10 years from now if there are nothing to disrupt this trend?
I do believe the evolution and progress of holochain is a small step in the direction of disrupting the status quo. Give the power back to the user. Give the user complete control of their data.
What i also like about the design of holochain is it’s agent-centric approach mirrors how the real world works. It makes sense and i can see it will be WAY scalable, better UX, decentralised, sustainable without compromising on security (if there are robust validation process with even minority honest users).
The economic model of holo fuel also can accrue value as the hosting network grows in capacity/efficiency. Yet designed to filter off speculative pressure that will impede mainstream adoption. It such a wonder why no one really think deeply about this problem associated with most utility tokens (bar stablecoins) except holochain.
Lastly, i like that the holochain model allows low barrier of entry and anyone can be a node/user/host to contribute resources to the network and get incetivised. This creates wide alignment of interest among many stake-holders and certainly can create huge network effects from ground up.
Can’t wait for holochain to move towards open alpha!
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@lynnfoster and I have been thinking and working for some years on an omega project that she recently started to call the Economic Operating System.
Here’s an earlier and slightly goofy attempt to explain it: https://github.com/valueflows/forum.valueflo.ws/issues/35
Even earlier, Todd Boyle talked about General Ledger Dialtone before blockchains existed. It’s the same idea, and we were influenced a lot by Todd.
The ability to interact economically should be built into the Internet just like email.
Holochain, and HoloREA, could be the first real-life implementation of that idea.
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I definitely see some intermediate ledger service providers apart from monolithic or individually maintained personal ledgers as being part of the ultimate Holochain ecosystem. So many ways to integrate diverse approaches to managing one’s data and organizational data.
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WOW, YES I agree with what everyone else has said. I am very excited and humbled to be part of this amazing community co-creating the future net for the betterment of humanity… 
And yes Holochain along with what we are all building WILL help save the world… this is a big part of what my project Our World is all about, “Together we can create a better world”. I say my project, but I am just the seeder and has been downloaded to me in visions so it is not really mine, it is the divine and it is all of ours, hence the name… 
The whole world is the Our World team, I want people to take responsibility for our beautiful world…
Our World is like a XR Unified Interface into all of these hApps (this is the Operating System part of it), it’s a bit like the XR UI front-end to Holochain where you can view and launch any apps from inside it but they integrate much more deeper than that through the OASIS API/Profile/Avatar/Karma system where they all share the central avatar/profile and can all add/subtract the profiles/avatars karma… it’s very hard to try and share and explain my vision… I just wish I had the investment to get it going properly… I hope soon…
https://forum.holochain.org/c/projects/our-world
My speciality is deep integration and unification… I want to bring everything together and not just within Holochain… the whole world… I think VERY BIG!
Holochain is the foundation of the new internet and the new earth that is birthing and believe me, it WILL change the world for good… I see a long way into the future!
Thank you for this amazing forum, it has helped show me what everyone else is working on instead of being in my own silo and I see a LOT more opportunities to collaborate and work with others to help accelerate the new net and new earth…
Once again, a big thank you to you all, it is an honor to serve with you all…
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OOOooh, looks like The OASIS API (Universal API To Connect Everything To Everything) is also working on a similar idea, and they want to connect HoloREA and also ActivityPub!
Very interesting, @dellams !
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Initially, I got attracted to Holochain because of the people and the promise of a p2p distributed web. When I was a kid, I got a 2400 baud modem for my birthday and got hooked and excited with looking at how ASCII-based BBS made communication possible. Combined with playing early dune-games and having the world at my fingertips, made me feel connected and super powerful. The good old days…
These days, the web is being used as a weapon of mass destruction. I feel responsible and rejected at the same time. Holochain could be a solution and bring back the power and same pleasure I had as a kid to the new generations.
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Thank you, appreciated. And now also the CEPTR Protocol For Pluggable Protocols… our vision of a non-siloed world where everything is totally open and interconnected… no more walled gardens…
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Yes can def relate on everything you said mate…
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Yes, this was also what I was thinking sent me down the Holochain path. Think of all the financial and other data in the hands of centralized entities that has been hacked or abused after it was sold to the highest bidder that never should have left the control of individuals in the first place.
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I believe that many of the biggest problems we face in relation to our sociopolitical economy - such as inequality, poverty or climate change - can only be addressed by following a philosophy of Mutual Self-sovereignty. The most fundamental problem is that, in so many domains, we are faced with inadequate tools, disempowering barriers and dysfunctional institutions. Therefore, in my view, what we truly need is to be better educated, enabled and empowered - this is the change we need. Holochain - and eventually Ceptr - gives us what is needed to make that change happen.
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Hello from Spain. We are in the field of holistic health in different ways, specially with Systemic Family Constellations.
Holochain sounds like a good way to make humans a priority, on top of technology and profit. It seems it will enable new ways to interact and create new economies. We want to be part of the transformation that is coming. We also have in mind the development a local crypto ( http://ecomonedas.com ) using the Holochain platform, although our knowledge of technologies like holochain, blockchain, dag, etc. is very limited. We have started buying one of those 3,000 units to help the initial stages of Holochain and hope to receive it soon.
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As an economist, I’m very much interrested in mutual credit clearing driven marketplaces.
As a psychosociologist, in collective intelligence and economic communities.
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Data sovereignty is a huge deal–seeing the world through this lens is really helping me see the furture.
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Holochain provides a key component of a new ecological ledger based economy, while Bitcoin provides a Fort Knox without tweaking fingers in it, just so that a system of transparency and machine consensus replaces paper, air-conditioned offices of lawyers, bankers and governments, let’s not forget, with augmented reality even the signage the world over can be made obsolete. Surely that’s a lot more energy than the energy taken to mine Bitcoin in this Greed fuelled expansion stage of it, into the key role of keeping the global balance of payments between countries. Once that happens, the fossil energy of Bitcoin can be easily replaced by the renewable energies that, if in excess, that is to say, even after pumping water to upper reservoirs, splitting water for Hydrogen and compressing air, can be used to manufacture synthetic Diamonds from atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. Now that’s an economy that does something it should, not one that hides the solar material, gold, in deep vaults, away from the sun, languishing in the dark where no human eyes see it. That’s a sign of bad design, bad management and bad administration. Think about it!
We might be able to use abundant Diamonds in large blocks to manufacture low tolerance, high efficiency Internal Combustion Engines that even burn fossil fuels for those purposes that really depend on high energy density, like motorized paragliding, go carts, model aircrafts and other such fun activities. It’s way too precious to cart a human many miles in a belching bus to push a pen a few inches, isn’t it?
Holochain matters because by its own architecture, it contributes to a localized, yet global approach to managing sustainability where pools of data can be shared across hApps, it’s light footprint helps too, to keep the hypocrisy down.
As we shift from a Carbon and Gold economy to a Diamond and Energy one, we may need to rethink things for at least the next thousand years.
Wish we could knock off these next gen tools as a priority layer of hApps that will colour all future hApps by their presence on the hApp store first, courtesy of Holo itself.
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so much missed value
Right on everybody! Go Holo!
Peace & Love 
Save mother earth! Evolve to better civilization
To fix our planet, substitute this below instead of digging gold out and keeping it in vaults.