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Wouldn't have been better if he just gaved money to upgrade a city? Yeah, a lot of bureaucracy but look to other "planned" smart cities! Millions of wasted moneys in some ghost towns, not to mention the ecological effects it has. I'm disappointed in Bill Gates. I though he was better than this. Sure if it's a just a little town it might work and get some profit out of it but i though he was more of a philanthropist, now at his age.

Its all over social media. Google has been invented. Go figure it out yourself. Second point. I though that I might hurt your little feelings so I deleted that part.

Meant 0.90 cents. "Why isn't the internet more simple?"

I guess it's the same reason why we don't use modularity in operating systems and applications. We have gotten used to how things have been done until now. Recommend reading this article since this ideas have been in my head for some time.

https://joshondesign.com/2017/08/18/idealos_essay

Disclaimer: this isn't my article.

Doesn't mean that this things can't be disrupted.

"Indexing data is hard. There isn't enough value for every given website to do it."

Well a lot of websites have their own search feature and a modular FOSS search engine wouldn't be out of the question. The database would need to figure out what is the context of the content and then tag those contents. The data could be feed to a repository or pass around different computers if we would use a decentralized protocol.

Given the modular nature of the system you could be hooked to more than one repository and your application would only need to figure out if the data feed is a duplicate and sort the content by metadata.

I'm curious to what would the web look like if a large numbers of websites decided that they don't want Google. A verification system would also be need to verify that no one website tempers with it's data in order to rank higher in the results.

Then again this would be a very modular experience so you would have a lot of choices regarding verification systems,wall crawlers, database repositories. True, the last part is true, that you would have more choices but isn't that what we want? Also i'm not saying that I wouldn't want Paypal and Gwallet to not exist just saying that there is a lot of interesting things out there I would wish to see happen.

I believe the current system is already over saturated and the online players Amazon, Apple, Google, Netflix, Tencent, Alibaba, Facebook and Microsoft are already encroaching on each others territories. Also a lot of the companies already posses powerful network effects and product synergies that make the entry of newcomers almost impossible. I'm force to remember every time I see a new VC investment that the purpose of VC is not to make the next tech giant like a Microsoft but to rapidly make a exit. I'm really sad by the current investment in tech but perhaps the real investments in disease treatment/space exploration are being ignored by the mass media.

Streaming a movie for 0.9 cent is something I would hardly call a steal seeing how Netflix fee is 9 usd/month and a streamed video isn't something you can rewatch. Also a lot of websites make money out of ads and your personal data but image that build in payment system that I described could be used to pay for my facebook use. All those annoying ads and data collection goes away. Facebook/Linkin/twitter are storing systems that present data in a certain way along with a address booking system. Since they are all storing system that means that they are similar in cost with G Drive that costs 100GB/3 usd/month. 3 usd per month to use Facebook without data collection and ads!? Where do I sign up?

the endless sea of video chat experts websites wasn't enough

This is what annoys me about the current "innovation" worshiping cult. Everybody just takes a already existent idea and changes just a simple variable. "Uber/Airbnb of X" style of thinking should just be put to rest forever. This is obviously happening because our current way of thinking is a mistake in itself. Everything should be modular and Jef Raskin was a proponent of this idea unfortunately nobody took him seriously enough.

I should be able to use a search application that lists to me every available expert, click the link, and then have a modular app skype/whatsapp/telegram blend in my workspace or open and be able to chat with that said expert.

Speaking of search engines every website should index they're own content and those indexes be categorized in blocks and linked to a central repository that then can be coupled with searching algorithms and users should be able to connect to that central repository and query it like a public library of the internet. Goodbye Google!!

Another thing if find annoying is paywalls. What if I go to Netflix and I just want to watch a just a specific movie or episodes without having to pay a membership fee. Let's say that Netflix has "Pirates of the Caribbean" and just want to click that video and stream it for 0.9 cents with not login in features and my ISP provider to add that payment to my utility bill. No Paypal/ApplePay/Google Wallet! Is it that hard to innovate in those way?

But you cannot do that!! I'm part of those who will get to be the 0.01%!! How could you take away my money that I will purposely wrote in my check from the monopoly that I will own with my company.