A Personal Welcome!

[Michael Liebhold]

I suggest all participants introduce themselves:

Hi  I'm Mike Liebhold

Senior Researcher, Distinguished Fellow

Institute for the Future

@mikeliebhold  @iftf

I'm the principal technologist at the Institute for the Future lAmong lots of other work, in the past, I've ead NSF projects bringing open internet to disadvantaged rural communities, lead big open tech policy projects,  worked on  collaborative open source code,  and  hosted and organized large scale hackathons and camps!   Currently i am leading an Institute for the Future initiative to  describe a complete software and hardware stack for an insurgent P2P internet in collaboration with both hacker groups and orgs like EFF.

Here's a current brief of the project draft idea:

IFTF is beginning research on design and implications of an second Internet for people to communicate directly and privately peer to peer to peer to peer.  

Currently only two communities have access to secure ad hoc networks: the darknet (copyright pirates, criminals, and terrorist bit torrent nets) and security agencies (e.g. intelligence and military MANETs Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks)  The research will be focused on uses and designs for a similarly resilient ad hoc public internet that will operate in the absence of the legacy internet telecom infrastructure (due perhaps to a hurricane or earthquake), or in the face of a civil emergency such as a local or global internet cyber attack. While meanwhile adhering to the Internet Architecture Board's recent recommendation that every protocol in the network should be designed for security and privacy. IAB Statement on Internet Confidentiality 11/14/14  

Many thanks, in advance, for your ideas and contributions giving this project traction and forward momentum!

 Please feel free to introduce yourself, and youyr ideas!

[Paul Cline]

Hello: 

I'm Paul Cline. I've been following the work of the IFTF for a while now and saw this opportunity to connect with the community. I'm interested in the notion of a second internet, second curve, or multiple-internets. I look for a time when mobile devices are constantly establishing P2P mesh networks with opportunistic links to larger networks for last mile connection when P2P doesn't reach. Every mobile phone, every car, every LED light, distributed sensors, etc.

I may mostly lurk, I'm learning and will not have a lot to add at first. 

Best, Paul

[Thomas Loeber]

Hi

I'm Tom Loeber.  I continue research my father conducted during his life into how society and computers might mesh most fortuitously.  He was a major whistle blower of corruption in an international  government agency, established wildlife preserves and is considered a founder of the first computerized library catalog.

Have a theory I came across in June of 1976 of a specific network topology whereby very large numbers of intelligent beings might collaborate.  Am exploring the possibility of creating a browser embedded application using Clojurescript to test the idea.  Evolution of our social structure attempts approaches characteristics of my theory.  Recent thorough fMRI analysis shows the networking of associative cortex neurons, about 70% of each of our brains, has discrete similarities to my theory.  I may actually have a general mathematical understanding of intelligence, best expressed when practiced collectively by intelligent agents reflecting its recursive nature.  A few years old Google presentation on the idea including a data model spreadsheet and API mock-ups of the potential application is here https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18n1B4keW-EBfM-KjLtu71OOFL-Qrlc-E6pBYNsuO-IY/present#slide=id.i0 .

The motivation for my work is realizing we currently have terminally violent collective insanity.  I consider dynamically though specifically allotted virtual private networks a part of how we might come to exhibit collective intelligence.  Maybe the network of Internet2 or something like it might serve as an infrastructure: http://www.internet2.edu/news/detail/7257/ .

Tom