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In reply to the discussion: Destroying the Right to Be Left Alone [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)you asked the OPERATOR to connect you to Fleetwood six three oh in Los Angeles. If you were in New York, you had to wait while that operator did a little "hopping" across the country and called you back when the line was connected.
You're telling me what IS. What IS is not of interest to me.
I'm imagining a different paradigm that doesn't require those hops, that server, those packets, that equipment. To hell with Google--you're talking to Fred, directly without having all this fiddling and faddling and relying on others to help you communicate.
You have an internet walkie talkie, and your buddy has one too. In fact, everyone you want to talk to has one. You connect directly, you don't need cable or "line" to do it, and you cut out the middle men--or the middle servers. You encrypt in your own way, if that's your thing, but you aren't at the mercy of ISPs or hops or anything of that nature...
It's a different way of imagining the process. You've got to sweep all your old concepts aside.
This is the difference between riding a horse from Boston to Baltimore, and taking a plane. Once upon a time, people said it was impossible for humans to fly, or to go to the moon.
Back in the old days, they used to say there was "no way" a man could prove definitively that a child was his. A mother knows because she gives birth to the child, but a father had to take it on faith. That paradigm is smashed too, thanks to DNA.
Someone will figure out how to do this. I think privacy enthusiasts will insist upon it!