[Nomic and Blender as a desktop OS]

petersuber's bookmarks 2020-12-21

Summary:

"I'm thinking of Blender as the next generation of desktops.

As soon as we figure out how to make a full desktop manager out of it, we'll have something really useful.

I imagine something kind of like a blender desktop manager, but not necessarily rendering, just kind of like Blender, in object mode. But, it can BE a desktop manager. So, when I start my desktop, Blender will be the only desktop. All applications will just be running inside. If you can imagine a display where your web-browser is running on the side of a cube, and that cube is inside of a larger cube, maybe the 'Browse' object. And, your Blender, while it is running as the core of your desktop manager, it can also be running inside of the 'Create' object in your GUI.

So, the GUI is just the presentation tier. I imagine that users will secure a digital identity, probably using their bank account and ss# or government id. And, that digital signature would then be used to interact with the API of your choice, and that API would very often be some kind of block-chain, with smart contracts. Then, your 'vote' button, would make the idea of election fraud sound ridiculous. Fraud would be virtually impossible, and we would be able to tally world-wide, nation-wide, state-wide or local votes, in near real-time.

But, I'm certain that this will need to be very standard. The solution cannot be owned by any one company or organization. It will have to be owned by everyone, or it won't work right.

We'll need to keep security as the primary objective. The next objective needs to be the most minimal viable product that can provide the ability to organize our thoughts in a way that is intuitive enough to keep things in the proper context, visually, and at a source code level.

And, all that talk about security doesn't make any sense at all if we can't review all of the source code. If your computer boots up, and the first function call that is executed after the bios-boot is hidden inside of a proprietary library from some business, well, then you can't possibly know if your OS is secure. So, if that's the case, re-format your hard drive. Consider using OpenBSD, then, you will be able review, and OWN, 100% of the source code, and rest assured that tens of thousands of engineers around the globe have also had the opportunity to thouroghly vet, and test every aspect of the program.

I think that if all these came together, we would have a very active, and very elaborate game of Nomic. That, in itself, would be a game changer. I think it would have the potential to assimilate, and eventually could even replace our constitution."

Link:

https://github.com/webkruncher/nomic

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Date tagged:

12/21/2020, 13:58

Date published:

12/21/2020, 08:58