Michael_Hills: Michael_Hills: Somebody should do a thorough video on the total benefits, in short form, of this network. And there are a lot, beacuse I can’t even think of them all off the top of my head.

The implications for such a massive paradigm shift in the way we interact with data are so mind-boggling that I doubt even David could get close to an exhaustive list.

Perhaps with a coordinated effort we could get a huge collection of ideas together and try to turn that into a video, but the more fantastic your claims the less credible you look most of the time. It’s also very difficult to say exactly what all the benefits will be; some of our assumptions might end up being wrong (like farming staying decentralised etc).

Sometimes less is more. I’ve found it’s often better to focus on what my audience cares about rather than drag everyone through the entire rabbit-hole with me - whenever I’ve tried that I end up with incredulous or confused expressions staring back at me.

I’m not shooting you down here, I’m all for more videos and community-generated material. I’m just trying to draw focus to the fact that sometimes you’re better off sticking with the core ideas and just hinting at implications to let people ponder them at their own pace.

You’re right though. We can probably give a much better impression of

Michael_Hills: Michael_Hills: the incredible impact Safe will have on the future of the Internet.

I just don’t think a video should focus on

Michael_Hills: Michael_Hills: the total benefits, in short form

Better to stick to the most important core ideas from which all the other possible benefits are derived. The first time I saw the tag line ‘security, privacy, freedom… for everyone’ I just brushed it off as the usual empty branding we’re all bombarded with daily. Once I understood how the network actually functioned I looked back at those five words and was lost in thought for days. I don’t think anyone can just ‘get it’ on day one. It takes a piecemeal process of connecting a lot of dots. Perhaps the sensible strategy is to lay foundations for people to make that journey by sticking to the core stuff with the biggest implications?

tl:dr Lead a horse to water by all means, but be wary of trying to shove his face in all the way to the bottom, he’ll drink the pond dry himself if he’s thirsty enough