InfoPackage

Introduction

We believe that a number of industry disrupting technologies are at our doorstep, exciting technologies that will allow us to connect in more effective and meaningful ways. We believe that with this comes an opportunity to rethink our technological path, to examine our way of life, and what it means to be a human in the 21st century.

The Human Web Project is a movement to build a new application stack on top of these disruptive technologies, to increase collective IQ, and augment human capability

The Human Web project seeks to empower everybody with the ability to:

• Access, protect, control and share their identities and data
• Securely communicate with machine and other human beings alike
• Trade and participate in smart contracts
• Collaborate and coordinate by themselves or together with others
• Evolve and share their user experiences with others
• Do all of the above without having to be tied to any middlemen

This is a info-package to help understand/explore the topics behind The Human Web. Join us on #thehumanweb on irc.freenode.net (http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=thehumanweb for web client)

Hashes

Hashes is the intended first offering from The Human Web project and would be available for Windows, MacOS X, Linux, SailfishOS, Ubuntu Phone, Android and iOS.

The app provides a human being with the ability to easily create and participate in 'hashes' - spaces for hashing out problems or ideas, personal or shared between two or more people, which is decentralized and secured with strong encryption methods and protocols.

When participating in a hash, the participants apply smart actions from their personal inventory to further explore or solve the current state of the hash, receiving live feedback from other participants on if it helps exploring the problem or idea. Smart actions done by others can be imitated, modified, shared and repurposed, which let them spread and evolve virally like practices and ideas.

Hashes can contain more complex functionality such as including cryptocurrency wallets, smart contracts, etc. which make hashing out a powerful means to deal with any problem or explore any idea.

Topic: The technologies we use:

• IPFS - http://ipfs.io
  • Talk: IPFS and the Permanent Web by Juan Benet, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUVmypx9HGI
  • Talk: IPFS @ Ethereum Devcon1 by Juan Benet, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewpIi1y_KDc
• Ethereum - https://www.ethereum.org/
  • Talk: Ethereum for Dummies by Dr. Gavin Wood - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_LK0t_qaPo
• Tor & Tor hidden services - https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en
  • Talk: Tor onion services: more useful than you think - https://media.ccc.de/v/32c3-7322-tor_onion_services_more_useful_than_you_think#video
• Conflict-free replicated data types - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_type
  • Paper: A comprehensive study of Convergent and Commutative Replicated Data Types - https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00555588/document
• gRPC - http://www.grpc.io/
• Protocol buffers - https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/#
• Qt/QML - http://www.qt.io/
• Protobuf-qml - https://github.com/nsuke/protobuf-qml

Glossary

Topic: Post-humanism

• Book: Accelerando, by Charles Stross - http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelerando/accelerando-intro.html
• Overview of and topical guide to transhumanism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_transhumanism
• Creation and realization of a new strategy for the development of humanity (no FLOSS?) http://2045.com/

Topic: Augmenting/amplifying human intellect

• Paper: Augmenting human intellect: a conceptual framework, by Douglas C. Engelbart - http://www.dougengelbart.org/pubs/augment-3906.html
• Video: The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
• Article: A practical intelligence amplification hack that really works - https://www.turnkeylinux.org/blog/practical-intelligence-amplification (your mind can process speech at much higher rates than anybody can speak it)
• Chrome extension: Video speed controller, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-controller/nffaoalbilbmmfgbnbgppjihopabppdk?hl=en
• Chrome extension: Sprint Reader, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sprint-reader-speed-readi/kejhpkmainjkpiablnfdppneidnkhdif?hl=en
• Wiki: Mentat wiki - http://www.ludism.org/mentat

Topic: Better ways to program and visualize

• Talk: Inventing on Principle, by Bret Victor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGqwXt90ZqA
• Talk: The Humane Representation of Thought, by Bret Victor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agOdP2Bmieg
• Talk: The future of programming, by Bret Victor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGMiCo2Ntsc
• Talk: Seeing Spaces, by Bret Victor - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klTjiXjqHrQ

Topic: Messaging as the next UX

• Article: 2016 will be the year of conversational commerce by Chris Messina - https://medium.com/@chrismessina/2016-will-be-the-year-of-conversational-commerce-1586e85e3991
• Article: Contextual Runtimes - http://avc.com/2015/12/contextual-runtimes/
• Article: When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China - http://a16z.com/2015/08/06/wechat-china-mobile-first/
• Article: Exploring the Just-in-Time Social Web , http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1958

Topic: Society

• Article: Liquid Democracy: True Democracy for the 21st Century, by Dominik Schiener - https://medium.com/@DomSchiener/liquid-democracy-true-democracy-for-the-21st-century-7c66f5e53b6f

Topic: Decentralization

• Talk: Decentralise Everything by Aral Barkan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctVOEeowc9U
• Article: GnuNameSystem as alternative to DNS - http://tools.ietf.org/search/draft-grothoff-iesg-special-use-p2p-names-01

Topic: Identity

• Article: Tell me who you are, by Vinay Gupta - https://medium.com/@ConsenSys/tell-me-who-you-are-258268bf3180

Topic: Work

• Article: Redefining work - Esko Kilpi - https://medium.com/@EskoKilpi/redefining-work-447bff8a6547
• Article: Rise of the supertemp - https://hbr.org/2012/05/the-rise-of-the-supertemp

Topic: The extended mind

• Paper: The Extended Mind by Andy Clark & David J. Chalmers - http://consc.net/papers/extended.html
• Talk: Is your phone part of your mind? by David Chalmers - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksasPjrYFTg

Topic: Education

• Talk: Rethinking CS Education by Alan Kay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9c7_8Gp7gI
• Book: How Children Learn by John Holt - http://www.amazon.com/Children-Learn-Classics-Child-Development/dp/0201484048

Topic: Privacy

• Video: A message from George Orwell, to everyone on the Internet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4EEa0HAqzQ

Topic: 3D audio

• Video: Rapture3D HRTF Demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKkI0W0_2Qg (listen with headphones)

Topic: Memes and temes

• Talk: Memes and "temes", by Susan Blackmore - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ_9-Qx5Hz4
• Book: The Meme Machine, by Susan Blackmore - http://www.amazon.com/Meme-Machine-Popular-Science-ebook/dp/B00814M2BW/

Topic: Linking with existing identities

• App: NFC passport reader - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.innovalor.nfciddocshowcase&hl=en

Topic: VR and productivty

• Video: VR Interface Design Pre-Visualisation Methods - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id86HeV-Vb8

Cool gadgets

• Boogieboard Sync (~100 USD): http://www.myboogieboard.com/ewriters/sync
• Bone conduction headset: http://aftershokz.com/
• NAM microphone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5dVILReCHQ
• Biowatch: http://biowatch.ch/ (vein reader)
• Magic mirror: http://hackaday.com/2015/12/30/magic-mirror-on-the-wall-is-pi-or-esp-fairest-of-all
• RePhone an OpenSource phone ? : http://www.seeedstudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=6668