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TheBlues's avatar

Copper infrastructure is slowly falling into disuse and being replaced by fibre optic and the likes of Starlink. Africa for example never really had major copper infrastructure and its economy was able to bypass that expense and go straight to new hi-tech data transfer. Soon we may possibly be using quantum entanglement for secure data transfer. There is a lot of junk in space, could the whole edifice of highspeed data be one day compromised leaving us dependant on old tech that is not maintained and vanishingly available?

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Rhona Pavis's avatar

How do we live in a world with artificial intelligence? Confusing. Truth? Plagiarism. Stealing. Etc.

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James Kay's avatar

Thinking about the outer net took me into pondering space warfare and jurisdiction issues about who has the right to police outside of the physical Earth. What is the current state of International law on space jurisdiction? Are we still at the wild West? Stage of whoever has got the fastest gun?

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Arved von Brasch's avatar

I've been running my own email and web server since the 90s. Any chance of going back to the early, real distributed internet rather than mass centralisation of services?

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JamieHMiller's avatar

Artificial intelligence will create as many new occupations as it will destroy.

What will be some of those new, high-paying occupations?

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Sal Yousaf's avatar

How long before there's a quantum computer powerful enough to break our current strongest cryptography and render obsolete all data security?

And can we trust AI using self learning or reinforcement learning algorithms to ensure that doesn't happen?

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Rebecca's avatar

How important is language on the Internet? We call it the world wide Web but is it really the Enlgish, French, Spanish, Hindi etc. webs?

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Scott's avatar

Access to the web is compromised and controlled by search giants, corporations, and governments around the world. It seems like the underlying architecture of the internet is fundamentally prone to censorship and control. Are there opportunities for a censorship-resistant, private infrastructure to take its place? I’m imagining something like smaller communities sharing networked resources, then connected to each other thru decentralized anonymous protocols. Do you think something grassroots like this is realistic? Is society willing to make such moves or is it simply too late and everyone’s eyeballs are already captured? Cheers!

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Terry Lydon's avatar

Excellent, such a good fella, pure gentleman and very intelligent. I would like to see him get involved in an Irish political party, the like of independent Ireland. We as a country would benefit greatly from Declans input. A shake up is needed and he would be ideal.

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