COWCHAT and why Web3 has failed to take over Social media, FOR NOW ... PART1
Prelude
It was definitely not a simple process to go from hypertext to web2.
Cow knows a lot about the history of the internet. Have researched all kinds of biographical and technical aspects of it. Understanding some of history will help us understand why we are failing with social media, and the problems we will face in the future.
In 1982 the hypertext was created on IBM PC, long story short, engineers wanted to create documents that would link to each other and possibly applications that would work in a similar fashion. One of the applications of this would later be completely forgotten, and that is, to keep a perfectly accurate timeline of documentation on a string of different hypertexts. Even today we do not have such a system. You might read an eBook from 1990 talking about HTML but this eBook will not link to previous 1980 books about hypertext. Even though they might mention these books and even provide a name, author or link to purchase, this link fails in providing specific information on-page, line, and word by word.
Shouldn’t the internet have such a system? Imagine you are reading a blog post by cow, you select a line and it will provide specific information of the very first book where such a line was used and the very last book, page, line and word by word. It’s completely possible that cow is being original, but doubtful.
Let’s take music for example. The music industry has spent billions of dollars on tools, to identify piece by piece in samples from songs and tell exactly where they came from. Usually, this will lead to rabbit hole of many different songs that are sampled in a string of different decades. Musicians and producers will pay to use these samplers and the original creators will be paid.
Why is this technology not existent for written content? Might it be that written content is much harder to categorise and put into a frame? Now with the growth of AI, we are capable of matching different books and deciding if they are similar word by word. This can lead to a new understanding of information that will show how humans communicate, and, how we can communicate better.
Human communication is a bitch.
Let's look at some data here:
There are only < 500k linguistics professionals in the USA, meanwhile, for software engineering (not even CS which should be more numerous) We have a much larger number.
By the use of this data, we can come to the conclusion that humans might just be much more interested in talking to computers than to talk to each other?
There are several problems with this.
Cow took a double in Philosophy and Economy, initially, cow wanted to be a Linguistics student but thought that this would be a dead-end professionally. Nevertheless, the cow’s research was very in-depth. From Egyptian languages to the very nuanced communication issues. With help of AI cow’s research was able to take some form. The question was simple, if human communication is badly developed, are we developing the correct software? How could we ask the right questions if we did not have the words?
This process took cow into a spiral of in-depth readings and spiritual search.
But let’s take a step back to physical
Have you heard of Ortholinear Keyboards? Differently from common keyboards, those are straight. But why? As it turns out it’s better for the hands to have the keys straight. But if that is true why did we not adopt these types of keyboards? More importantly, why do you need the “curved key” layout on normal keyboards? The answer is typewriters. They aligned the keys that way so the keys would never touch each other when punching against the paper.
As you can see in the picture above, the keys had to be arranged in a curve so they wouldn't ever touch. Since the Typewriters we have been designing keyboards in the same way, no questions asked.
This begs the question...What else have we been doing this way?
The answer to this is, mostly everything. We use a limited set of words and letters to input logic, it works, but is it effective? Most importantly does it help you as a human to communicate with the computer? Could we have adopted better methods of language or design?
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Jokes aside, cow has been working the entire day around the clock, the PART2 for this article comes out tomorrow. The alpha leak for COWCHAT is being carefully prepared, it may take a day to two for it to be up to cow’s standards. Please, wait just a little bit plweaaaseeeee sers! Have a good night! 🖤🤍
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