RE: EOS: A Blockchain Operating System
I haven't finished digesting the video and other material, but found your article as I research about. What excites me so far is "OPERATING SYSTEM". This was the killer app that really launched the computer revolution.
I remember the days before Microsoft and Apple. In Electrical Engineering College we programmed the 6502 Microprocessor in assembly language. Computer Science was Paschal, LISP, Fortran or perhaps COBOL for the practical business people. All done on a dumb terminal in the computer room.
There were personal computers out there. You could do spread sheets, play games and Q-Link was a precursor to the Internet, sort of a glorified bulletin board. But with the advent of the general operating system (Windows and Macintosh), things really took off. Now you had it all; spread sheet, word processer, data base, printer, disk drives, maps, encyclopedias, whatever. You had a general computer and you just added the software to do what you wanted to do. The OS coordinated everthing.
Windows 2 came out in 1987 and now you were seeing computers in corporations everywhere. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs joined the ranks of the richest on the planet because they realized the value of a general OS. IBM, interestingly enough, missed out on the personal computer revolution. They did not see value in people having a personal computer. In a few years, it was the 90s and the Internet came along and the world has not been the same since.
The current blockchain/smartmoney situation is like the 1980s. Things are fragmented. There is a coin for this and a coin for that. Banks got their Ripple, Ethereum's got smart contracts, Bitcoin, a pure currency, rules the currency thing. Steem is a social media reinvented for the coming blockchain/Smartmoney world. Open Ledger is seeking to corral all the really big dogs. Solving the convergence of all these diverse factors is what an EOS could do as a general purpose computer blockchain operating system. And it's decentralized to boot;)
Exactly, my thoughts about this focus on the product. Not sure if UI / UX is necessarily at the core of it, I'd imagine it's more of the inner workings that'll make this a one-of-a-kind product! Thanks for the comprehensive response - seems like you've been through the hay days of computers and the internet!
Your comment should be its own post!
check out This video about if Bitcoin were around in the 90s
and my steemit post on 80s chatrooms and why we might have had blockchain in the 80s or 90s if someone would have thought it up and built it back then, i believe it would have been possible tto have a blockchain p2p money system with old apple IIes and BBS boards!
https://steemit.com/eighties/@ackza/why-wasnt-twitter-or-reddit-invented-in-the-80s-a-surprising-history-of-chat-rooms-i-had-no-idea-we-even-had-chat-rooms-in-the
Off hand, I don't think we had the computing power and memory in the 80s and 90s to make a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin for the common man. Perhaps, a DPOS blockchain or some new altcoin crypto that is not heavy on memory and CPU power.
We could have had something in the early 2000s perhaps. There was folding@home which was one of the original distributed computer systems. If someone had thought up Nakamoto's system, there were enough computers and Internet users out there to experiment with a Bitcoin like system in the year 2000.