We all know that Google is essentially a huge marketplace, where someone is searching for content and the other side provides this content. You can purchase most of googles services, but you cannot purchase the ability to search without bullshit and advertisement. Moreover, you cannot search for many things. The original vision of the Internet was the free exchange of knowledge, but at present it is not. We pay for academic works, we are not free to share information and therefore there are projects such as WikiLeaks, arXiv, Tor, etc. The problem is that the current semantical field (a structured group of words with related meanings, which is characterized by certain regularities), that we use every day, is built pretty much by one company, allowing it to sell data, provide users with misleading information and to effectively censor data. Decentralized Internet and open semantic field, these are the 2 problems that the Cyber project solves.
Cyber is a decentralized Google. It is an innovative search protocol that can provide provable answers to questions without an intermediary opinion. This protocol exists thanks to such technology as blockchain and what is referred to, as content addressing (a way to locate information on the web using the content, rather than referring to its location, by such, avoiding censorship). Cyber can be defined as a smart, distributed computer. It can process, store and compute value in the form of providing answers to questions. At first glance, this might seem like a very primitive utility, suited, maximum, for an innovative browser. But that is far from the case. First of all, it is worth pointing out that Cyber provides useful computations! It is one of the first times in the history of blockchain technology where the computations done by the distributed computer have obvious and useful utility, not just to the end-user, but to the whole world. The forming of relevant and provable answers, that will shape an open semantics field. An open semantics field lets you shape the internet differently. It allows users with interest in prosperity to receive more by using yesterdays' tools. It can make these instruments fairer, more efficient and more relevant. The basic idea is to create an Intercommunication Knowledge Protocol that can interact with everything that is defined by the user. Cyber can account for a large number of use-cases, like: unified semantics, autonomous robots, programmable semantics, personal assistants, language convergence, universal oracles, proof of location and much more. All of these cases are built on semantics. Even including naive cases like e-commerce, that can flourish fairly on local markets, thanks to a distributed, accessible knowledge graph. Queries can be delivered straight out of your personal browsing application. Answers can provide subjective relevance that is important at the time, at the place, to a particular community and/or projects.
Other cases, like social networks, prediction markets, offline search, etc are also possible but are less global, although can have more reach, based on consumer behaviour. The ability to create a Wikipedia without the censorship and blackbox intermediaries is astonishing. The idea of recreating search at its original vision, where you can search for academic papers, search inside of a social network, interact with your own search results, etc, is astonishing.
Cyber can be used for communication with your own database of knowledge. This means, that you control your data. This opens up a multi-billion dollar market of data selling to individuals, who now choose what to do with their data. Other, more far-fetched cases can exist. For example, if I am a trader that searches and trades, I produce metadata I can interact with locally. It can help me to answer where my trades went wrong (with the help of analysing that data of course).
Cyber can create local, subjective oracles of data that can be sold. If we provide cyber with the ability to work with second layer semantics (emotions), it can re-create a local, subjective happiness mechanism. Or count the risk of something happening, based on the local semantics field. Of course, this is all up to the users. Cyber allows deleting the boundary between the content provider, the content receiver, the service provider and the service receiver.
To understand Cyber one first needs to understand its philosophy. Here is what the team working on the Cyber project says about it:
" What do we believe in? We believe in freedom, privacy and decentralization. We share and propagate the vision of improving this world. We believe that evil stands behind a centralized, bureaucratic approach to technology, governance, communication protocols, money and more. We believe in code. We believe in technological innovation and how it can give humankind tools to craft our own liberty. We believe in making use of our knowledge to make the world a slightly better to leave for our children to inherit. With that in mind, what we are trying to say, is that Cyber and CYB are not just technological creations. They are much more. At their base lay the values of the team behind Cyber. We are digitizing our core values and placing them within the system we are crafting. We hope that our project can create was the internet set out to accomplish to be and what we believe the blockchain paradigm stands for."
It is up to you to decide what you care about and what you don't. However, if you care about our future being less centralized, less authoritative and fairer, then it makes sense to decentralise the services of the technology that binds us all together. Of course, I am referring to the internet.
I suggest you start your acquaintance from
cyber.page. It is a small taste of an IPFS-based search application, that allows one to search for semantically enriched and dynamically ranked IPFS content, with the help of the cyber protocol. And... no need to install anything. To understand Cyber, you might want to understand the technology it's using. This is a brief overview. For more information, check the
homestead guide.
