[liberationtech] Fwd: economic cost of lost emails.

[J.M. Porup]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014, at 16:05, Juan Batiz-Benet wrote:
> Hey guys, I'm adding myself to this list (I was in class of 2010 (CS) --
> wow i'm old...)
> 
> Natanael, Jens, very glad to see you raising these concerns. I see the
> burning of the library as the worst tragedy to befall humanity yet... and
> that's a big statement made with clear understanding of genocides,
> epidemics, etc. Sagan has a great telling of the story in Cosmos ep1. They
> are *exactly* what drove me to make IPFS and Filecoin.  (which, funnily,
> are precisely in that design line of thinking Natanael ;) )
> 
> Anyway, please see these links. More discussion later
> 
> - IPFS: ipfs.io (see the talk at 2x) and http://static.benet.ai/t/ipfs.pdf
> - Filecoin filecoin.io (see the whitepaper there)
> 
> And, if you believe in the same things I do, help build this. I'm hiring,
> so reach out.
> 
> Juan

Interesting. Is the goal to create a DAC (Distributed Autonomous Corporation)?

References:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/2014/01/computer-corporations [*]

http://garzikrants.blogspot.com/2013/01/storj-and-bitcoin-autonomous-agents.html

[*] Full disclosure: I wrote this article.

Jens

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