I agree a decentralized internet is needed, but many people don't like paying for things anymore or don't have an extra buck to send an individual email. The other reality is companies like at&t and Comcast collect just as much data and are forgotten, ignored or thought to be the cost of living.
Skynet and 1984 and big brother has been freely given away and created and we didn't care.
https://www.thedrum.com/news/2018/12/11/consumers-go-cold-automated-chatbots-finds-acquia-research
" Widespread dissatisfaction with the service provided by chatbots has done nothing to dent the enthusiasm of marketers, with 80% of CMOs either already using the technology or planning to do so by 2020 according to a separate Oracle survey."
I played around with chatbots and smart chatbots a couple years back. I still lived in California when a friend and I thought about a health and wellness chatbot for new and expecting parents. Never figured the monetary business model for it though and it was early stages before things like dialogflow basically abstracted away natural language processing (NLP).
It was interesting how you had to come up with a natural conversation flow script. Otherwise it be kind of a dumb chatbot like we had in the early 90s.
Fast forward to the world of Alexa and Google home and Siri and even my kids call Alexa dumb. At least Google hole explores the internet a little better. But I don't think it's Technology problem as it's a customer centric problem. Companies have offshored support to places like India for years. And you'd speak to a Tom Smith who wasn't a Tom Smith pretending to live in the same state as you. And they spoke English very poorly and read from a limited script.
They were the human version of a dumb chatbot, sadly. Deviate away from that script and it was a useless phone call and nothing good would come out of it. But wow, pay nothing to create a dumb chatbot with the same weak script and little programmatic or NLP or rules and you get a worse version of the offshore customer support human being that people hated for years. No wonder chatbots are useless.
A tier one, two, three model makes sense , but a dumbed down version of a cheap Sweatshop like human being customer support center becomes a get what you pay for and why most of these chatbots offer a few lines and not much else .
From the report,
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blockchain has the potential to significantly cut trade costs by increasing transparency and facilitating processes automation, including financial intermediation, exchange rate costs, coordination, and other aspects. “The removal of barriers due to blockchain could result in more than $ 1 trillion of new trade in the next decade
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https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-developers-are-quietly-planning-an-accelerated-tech-roadmap
Interesting possibilities in 2019. But accelerated roadmaps and timelines make sense If more developers are involved, otherwise it's a system already with vulnerabilities probably adding more because they want speed over quality. Happens all the time everywhere, but not always good thing.
The other interesting tidbit is renting costs for the storage of smart contracts. I understand why they need to do it. 1TB isn't something most people are going to want to download as a miner or eventual staker. But if you build a dapp and have to pay digitalocean for the front end web mobile app portion; then pay for gas; and pay for storj or ipfs for regular file storage; and then pay to rent space for your smart contract ...
At some point it's an expensive experiment and gets into why would anybody build real applications on it ? Most companies and startups aren't going to benefit a ton compared to the costs of these new systems. And it's already a challenge to get normal people to want to use blockchain and crypto.
The bigger challenge is not everything needs to be written to the blockchain. So you can avoid certain gas like Costs. I guess you can say not everything needs to be a smart contract. But the more things like state channels and side chains and JavaScript front end logic is needed, what exactly is decentralized about most of it ?
https://www.coindesk.com/deloitte-blockchain-chief-bad-crypto-headlines-are-making-clients-nervous
" If you’re building free proofs of concept, but you’re missing the business context around it, like regulatory, AML/KYC, tax and all the other stuff, you really aren’t servicing the client holistically,” Pawczuk went on, without naming names. “Another thing that makes me nervous is proofs-of-concepts being built by students that have never had to coexist in the environment where large high volume transaction systems do exist. Blockchain does not replace all core systems.”
I find it rather interesting the leaders and partners of these Consulting companies are worried about students and newbies doing POCs, yet many of the big firms like Deloitte are people under 27 who aren't usually hardcore techies and computer science or Cryptography guys. The big shot partners usually don't know anything about the latest tech.
They are good at selling it , but dig into technical conversations and it's usually a lot of keywords that sell to the masses, but if you're into the tech, you just role your eyes. In fact, a lot of times the techies are pushed aside for the more business and charismatic biz Dev sales folks.
Big Consulting firms love to charge big dollars for POCs and have mostly non cs people who implement them. Or send 26 year old communication majors with 15 years of experience in a 5 year old Technology. That's why she fears free POCs.
The Deloitte's of the world are really why public blockchain systems are needed.
This is where some new system, maybe blockchain, far more transparent, far more beneficial needs to be Implemented now. Not later.
Who knows what kind of shady backwards stuff went on or not. You can't ever have someone like Kemp again. Control the elections, step down after , and have people believe there isn't some backwoods racist politics and fraud going on ?
However the election turned out has nothing to do with who won or what people voted for in this instance. Kemp should have been forced to step down or leave the governor's race.
Could blockchain and digital voting help ? Maybe. A more decentralized less biased and fraudulent system is definitely needed. This Kemp government is a prime example of corrupt politicians and government and processes.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/09/how-brian-kemp-hacked-georgias-election/
It's NDAs, which are mostly copy and pasted and kind of thrown in to cover everything at times. I wonder how much effort most lawyers actually put into them anymore? And many companies just use some legalzoom like NDA template anyway.
So a win for AI or irrelevant hype?
https://www.techspot.com/news/77189-machine-learning-algorithm-beats-20-lawyers-nda-legal.html
