2020/Austin/without-glue-everything-falls-apart

Without Glue, Everything Falls Apart was a keynote by Pace Smith at IndieWebCamp Austin 2020. Slides

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Without Glue, Everything Falls Apart
by Pace Smith

Title: Without Glue, Everything Falls Apart
Pace is visiting us from the future. "Welcome to 1993. Have a pile of wood"
Imagine you're back in 1993, this technology lets you type things in and then it appears on the web page. guestbooks!
With this same technology we could have built blogs
In the future... and it's all built on IndieWeb technologies
In the future: we never build the same thing twice, nobody gets betrayed, no more sexual predators, no more marketing, no more bad science, no more capitalism
"We never build the same thing twice" - reusable functions etc.
"IndieTrustWeb", just as website link to each other, we need people to be able to say "I trust you"
"No more sexual predators, we had Gamergate, #Metoo, and in the future we have GlassCupidor where people post transparently about their exes"
"No more marketing: IndieTrustWeb Goods and Services Recommender ITWGASR!"
No more bad science:
No more capitalism: IndieTrustWeb helps prevent fake news, "I trust you"
media has less influence
all of these problems get solved by IndieTrustWeb. This is the glue that holds the future internet together.
So thanks to us for creating it.

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