Providers of application INDEPENDENT compute power (like virtual machines e.g. Vultr, AWS etc.) are NOT Clouds, as they do NOT dictate what software you can run of their machines and they do not access your data as part of their business model.
We call these providers Hosters, as they host computers remotely for their customers. Hosters plays an important part within the Citizen Ecosystem.
A few online services like Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap are not, but most are.
Private Cyberspace gives you an exclusive digital space to collect, store and control all your data, transforming you from an information User building up Cloud Platform assets to an information Owner building up Your Own assets.
The benefits of owning your information space are no less than
Transforming from a compute USER to a Compute OWNER is easy - with just ONE CLICK.
| Owner ADVANTAGES |
Citizen Compute OWNER |
Cloud Compute USER |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Access | you define | platform define |
| 2. Artificial Intelligence | your model | platform model |
| 3. Asset | your asset | cloud asset |
| 4. Attention | controlled interruptions | constant interruptions |
| 5. Benefits | mostly to you | mostly to platform |
| 6. Broadband | more return on investment | less return on investment |
| 7. Collaboration | directly by you | only through platform |
| 8. Contacts | you know | platform knows |
| 9. Control | totally exclusive | almost none |
| 10. Cost | collaborative infrastructure | centralised infrastructure |
| 11. Customisation | personal wants | platform wants |
| 12. Death | your beneficiaries | unknown beneficiaries |
| 13. Encryption | you encrypt | platform encrypts |
| 14. Evidence | you collect | platform collect |
| 15. Hardware | cheap devices | expensive devices |
| 16. Impact | global reach | platform reach |
| 17. Income | mutual reward | algorithm reward |
| 18. Independence | your rules | platform rules |
| 19. Innovation | swappable processes | fixed processes |
| 20. Insight | processed data | raw data |
| 21. Interaction | you manage | platform manage |
| 22. Leadership | easy to lead | easy to follow |
| 23. Name | your aliases | account name |
| 24. Payment | your log | platform log |
| 25. Profit | your compute | your data |
| 26. Principle | your own | platform directors |
| 27. Productivity | globally optimised | locally optimised |
| 28. Redundancy | massive redundancy | limited redundancy |
| 29. Reputation | you decide | platform decides |
| 30. Resource | reclaim latent resources | waste precious resources |
| 31. Reward | value based reward | platform based reward |
| 32. Rules | mutual agreement | platform dictate |
| 33. Safety | your boundaries | platform boundaries |
| 34. Security | trusted interaction | supervised interaction |
| 35. Skill | mix and match nodes | application programming interfaces |
| 36. Software | Node Set | App Store |
| 37. Sovereignty | local laws | overseas laws |
| 38. Trust | distributed attestation | central attestation |
| 39. Usability | your interface | platform interface |
| 40. Value Add | your way | platform's way |
| 41. Wastage | all data | partial data |
| 42. Worldview | you control | platform controls |
As can be seen above, Compute Ownership improves all aspects of your digital life - substantially. Whatever you do, you can do it better when you own the compute processing your data.
Define who has access to what data yourself, instead of letting cloud platforms use it in ways you have not approved or sell it to people you don't know.
How much has Apple paid you to use your phone, your bandwidth, your battery power, your LOCATION at that time to help find an Airtag belonging to some stranger ?
Private Cyberspace turns the existing Cloud Control Flow UPSIDE DOWN, by letting the user control application through infrastructure.
Making Private Cyberspace affordable and attractive to all 8 billion on earth requires a PARADIGM SHIFT in economies of scale:
Private Cyberspace removes the COST barrier to RELIABLE infrastructure by leveraging community idle capacities (e.g. unused disks, bored retirees), reusing broken devices (e.g. laptops with faulty screens & keyboards) and taking over data income from the Cloud.
Currently most people can only collaborate via cloud platforms, with private cyberspace everyone can collaborate directly and benefit from network effects that were only available cloud platforms before.
Digital Equity
Private Cyberspace removes the COST barrier by leveraging community idle capacities (e.g. unused disks, bored retirees), reusing broken devices (e.g. laptops with faulty screens & keyboards) and taking over data income from the Cloud.
Private Cyberspace removes the COST barrier to private cyberspace ownership by aggregating surplus resources from others and taking over data income from the Cloud. Everyone now have RELIABLE infrastructure to operate at any scale, no matter their wealth.
A major dilemma with selling your data is the lack of privacy, the more data you sell the less privacy you have. So your data income was essentially limited by how much privacy you are willing to lose.
Private Dataspace solves this income dilemma by letting you sell your data without losing your privacy with the world's first deployment of homomorphic encryption at population scale.
Private Dataspace uses a novel 2 step data exchange process to not just protect owner privacy but also to ensure maximum return on owner data.
If someone uses your personal data and infrastructure built with your tax dollars to generate massive profits from their AI models, may be they should give you some money in return ?
Instead of money, now that you have you own Private Cyberspace with compute power, may be they can:
Once you have collected some data into your own private cyberspace, you can OPTIONALLY work other cyberspaces in a safe and synergistic manner to solve the most difficult problems facing humankind.
For example, currently you can earn bronze y20coins anonymously (e.g. for helping to locate COVID virus down to meters and cut its legs off within minutes by notifying others).
From the wifi signals on the street to the barcodes on a bottle of milk, you can donate or sell the the data you have collected in your Private Cyberspace immediately on collection or on a later date.
Selling DATA in your Private Cyberspace redirects the funds originally going to the Cloud Platforms to you, however Private Cyberspace also let you sell INSIGHTS by processing your data yourself and then selling the resulting insight, which is substantially safer than exposing your data to others.
You can also use your Private Cyberspace to receive data anonymously, from a pothole on the road in front to an active shooter in the building, from an ambulance coming up behind you to proving you are somewhere else at a certain time in courts ... the possibilities are endless.
Innovation sets Human Intelligence apart from Artificial Intelligence, innovation needs compute and data to thrive, restricting the compute and data to dozens of companies worldwide is directly restricting the ability of the rest of us to innovate.
No matter how smart the staff are at the Cloud Platforms (Apple, Google, Open AI etc.), the diversity introduced through the participation of the rest of the world will result in MORE and BETTER innovations.
Most importantly, those innovations will be carried out under the DIRECTIONS of billions of citizens instead of dozens of board members.
Private Cyberspace provides instant compute power to MANY so their digital lives are no longer dependent on the compute power from a FEW (e.g. Apple, Google, ChatGPT etc.).
analysing detailed data deeply (previously not possible on cloud platforms due to privacy reasons)
interacting directly with people safely (previously you need to go through cloud platforms)
Each person can have one or more Private Cyberspaces and each Private Cyberspace can operate under one or more aliases.
Unlike Cloud Platforms which attempt to identify you and target you even across applications and sites, Private Cyberspace encourages you to have different identities for different purposes. Fine grain control allows you to tune each alias for different groups of people and different types of applications.
New Private Cyberspaces always start operation with a PRIVATE alias - there is NO identity information and NO data leaves your phone - you can even collect data OFFLINE. You can confirm that feature by continuing to collect data after you have disabled all communication functions e.g. turn on "air plane mode" of your phone. Programmers can confirm by auditing the javascript code already loaded in your browsers.
PRIVATE alias is used to collect raw data privately on your phone and sharing them at your own time and through your own means, there is no interaction with any exchange. In fact, since the Console will not "phone home" to application providers under GUEST alias, you will need to check for new software updates manually, it will not check itself. Basically you are using the Console to built your information assets "off the grid".
GUEST aliases are used for interacting anonymously with exchanges. You will start to see more information (like the name of the local government area you are currently in) and be able to.