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We Need the National Cloud Service More than Ever
A crucial update to our national infrastructure is required to save us from the Broligarchy and make the National Archives more relevant
Everything was quaint and cute when Twitty was just a little pissant chat app, and Facebook was some nerd’s stolen, mundane PHP college wetdream update to MySpace, and Google was a way to find stuff in the Wild West of the new Internet along with Ask Jeeves and Yahoo. Fast forward to 2025 and these seeds of ordinary software have been allowed to grow into choking parasitic vines, strangling and dividing public discourse, spreading infotoxins into the veins of society and creating pockets of extreme wealth and power in a handful of undeserving goons. Now we find ourselves in a race to save the soul of America and unfortunately, the Broligarchy is winning the race, especially now that they have AI to help them.
Americans, and really the rest of the world, have demonstrated a nearly universal need to share information with each other. It’s always been there in the form of the town square, newspapers, magazines, TV and the like but those were the kindergarten of sharing and we are in the age of advanced hypersharing. Besides sharing with our friends (and the world), we also have a universal need to store our…
