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Satellite internet, balloon internet, drone internet, and above all encryption.

The network versus the state is the story of this century and that story has just begun.
Satellite internet

“SpaceX, the private spaceflight company known for reusable rockets and a giant, shiny Starship, will begin offering its own satellite internet service in 2020.”
space.com/spacex-starlin…
Balloon internet

“Loon is a network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, delivering connectivity to people in unserved and underserved communities around the world.” loon.com
Drone internet

“The attraction of drones and balloons is they could cost much less than building cell towers in remote areas.”
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Maybe the v2 answer is just encouraging employees to play Fortnite together.
To be clear, I think all of those ideas are good ideas and clearly Gitlab has done well as a company.

But maybe informal socialization for remote teams means video games and social networks?
Just like you usually don’t want to code your own SaaS, perhaps you don’t want to build your own tools for fun remote socialization.

At-scale tools for cross border socialization already exist in the form of social networks and multiplayer video games. Maybe that’s the answer?
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Catholicism was centralized and led by the pope and Church.

Protestantism was decentralized and preached disintermediation (via “a personal relationship with god”).
Over time, Protestantism built up its own institutions, but it’s easier for a new pastor to found a new denomination than to fork the Catholic Church.

That’s part of why Protestantism was initially attractive: it offered a path to power outside the Church hierarchy.
The theological arguments that justified the disintermediation of the Catholic Church in favor of a “personal relationship with god” led to the Counter-Reformation, the 30 years war, and a huge power struggle.
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If you ran a script over your media diet, you could figure out what concepts you are reinforcing through repetition. augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
That script could print out nutritional facts on your media diet, much like you get on food.

Just a list of the top 1000 keywords on your screen would show you what you were loading into your brain.

It might not necessarily be the concepts you want to learn.
See also the concept of effective frequency. Maybe you can retarget yourself to improve learning?
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