It’s Not Just About Connecting

What does this mean? This means people can perform a lot of local computation and reap the benefits, locally. All of this reduces the need to rely on a center. Education + entertainment benefits are enormous.

Computer games are a good example: recently gaming industry became bigger than Holywood, meaning the narrative, graphics generated on a local computer supported by AI gets more attention now than some one-way, non-interactive play of light projected on a screen. Your kid, when he goes to his room,  might be commanding armies, creating societies, learning tactics, strategy on these computer games, in his spare time. These strategy games are no joke - I’ve seen kids dealing with logistical, strategical issues across galaxies, centuries that would give a real-life strategist a hard time.

Marshall McLuhan said, “we shape our tools, then our tools shape us”. There is an astonishing interplay between man and machine which is already creating a new breed of person who has different wants, priorities, sensibilities than a factory worker from the 50s.