What is holochain?
Like Berners-Lee's WWW, holochain is a protocol for encrypted
computer communications — a system for enabling computers to talk to
each other. But the WWW runs mostly on corporate server farms. On
the WWW, your smartphone or laptop calls up Facebook, Baidu or
Google's corporate servers, and sends and receives packets of data back
and forth. Most computing and data storage is done on those corporate
servers — in the corporate "cloud."
In contrast, holochain is designed to run entirely on distributed
networks of home computers and smartphones, on a peer-to-peer, give-
and-take basis.
All kinds of apps
All kinds of apps can be built on holochain. For example, search apps
similar to Google, email apps, messaging apps similar to Facebook
Messenger, Twitter-like short text sharing apps, AirBnB-like spare-
room-sharing apps.
Because apps built using the holochain protocol will live exclusively on
distributed networks of consumer-owned computers, these apps won't
need to interact with corporate server farms at all. That means the
corporations that own those server farms won't be able to strip-mine
your personal data as it passes through their corporate computers,
because your data won't pass through those computers.
That's what this is about. The makers of holochain are idealists who
want to give us our privacy back. And tech people are starting to
realize that holochain technology may really be up to the challenge.
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Could holochain resurrect online privacy?
Over the past 15 years or so, the online world has become the place
where privacy went to die. The Web is now a panopticon, dominated by
an oligarchy of all-seeing, all-knowing megacorporations which harvest
and store vast amounts of personal data.
In their pursuit of boosting advertising revenues by charging
advertisers fees for serving us ever more precisely targeted ads,
corporations like Facebook, Google, Twitter or Baidu automatically
record and evaluate our social media interactions , our web searches,
our digital photographs, our GPS locations, our subscriptions, our
online video viewing choices, our emails, our phone calls, our every
click and word.
An incredibly detailed personal profile of you is implicit in the data
you allow online corporations to harvest and analyze — your economic
status, political views, relationships, hobbies, proclivities, interests,
likes, dislikes, personality traits, education level, age, gender
preference, location history … everything.
Like Berners-Lee's WWW, holochain is a protocol for encrypted
computer communications — a system for enabling computers to talk to
each other. But the WWW runs mostly on corporate server farms. On
the WWW, your smartphone or laptop calls up Facebook, Baidu or
Google's corporate servers, and sends and receives packets of data back
and forth. Most computing and data storage is done on those corporate
servers — in the corporate "cloud."
In contrast, holochain is designed to run entirely on distributed
networks of home computers and smartphones, on a peer-to-peer, give-
and-take basis.
All kinds of apps
All kinds of apps can be built on holochain. For example, search apps
similar to Google, email apps, messaging apps similar to Facebook
Messenger, Twitter-like short text sharing apps, AirBnB-like spare-
room-sharing apps.
Because apps built using the holochain protocol will live exclusively on
distributed networks of consumer-owned computers, these apps won't
need to interact with corporate server farms at all. That means the
corporations that own those server farms won't be able to strip-mine
your personal data as it passes through their corporate computers,
because your data won't pass through those computers.
That's what this is about. The makers of holochain are idealists who
want to give us our privacy back. And tech people are starting to
realize that holochain technology may really be up to the challenge.
AUDIOS AND VIDEOS ON THE TOPIC
All videos, audios and galleries
Could holochain resurrect online privacy?
Over the past 15 years or so, the online world has become the place
where privacy went to die. The Web is now a panopticon, dominated by
an oligarchy of all-seeing, all-knowing megacorporations which harvest
and store vast amounts of personal data.
In their pursuit of boosting advertising revenues by charging
advertisers fees for serving us ever more precisely targeted ads,
corporations like Facebook, Google, Twitter or Baidu automatically
record and evaluate our social media interactions , our web searches,
our digital photographs, our GPS locations, our subscriptions, our
online video viewing choices, our emails, our phone calls, our every
click and word.
An incredibly detailed personal profile of you is implicit in the data
you allow online corporations to harvest and analyze — your economic
status, political views, relationships, hobbies, proclivities, interests,
likes, dislikes, personality traits, education level, age, gender
preference, location history … everything.
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