Good thoughts, Paul.
I was struck by the notion that a decentralized web-based DKR would
itself create a very real interdependence.
Another thought: Since evaluations are central to a knowledge
repository, a world-wide DKR could instantly gather opinions on every
new product, technology, or company. Non-cooperative participants might
be weeded out very fast, in such a setting.
That might end arms races rather quickly, as the "tipping scales"
phenomenon creates relatively instantaneous virtual monopolies for the
"best of breed" competitors.
Note:
Space stations might well provide the means for repopulating the
earth after the big comet. The major unsolved problem, as I see
it, is passing down an accurate historical record to technologically
illiterate civilizations that the survivors will inevitably
devolve into before climbing back up the technological ladder.
The result, I suspect, will give us something like Noah's Ark
legends of myths of ancient "Gods" that become stories, no longer
understood for what they are, but reinterpreted as allegories or
changed in ways that conform with the listener's reality.
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