Is internet progress as progress is in the progress bar?

1. What is progress?

2. Progress as in the
progress bar:
1) You are good when it moves
forward
2) Things suck when it stops
3) It never moves backwards
>> Progress is something that
when we got it, we don’t have to
give it away

3. Progress as in the
mushrooms of
Mario Bros:
1) You find a mushroom and progress
to become a bigger Mario
2) You might become small again in
some catastrophic event
This is not real
progress.

4. Progress:
Universal suffrage?
Gay rights?
Freedom to roam?

5. Progress:
Social
development is
reversible by
political decisions.
Sometimes this is
even beneficial to
political actors.

6. Progress as the
mushrooms are
progress
(unfortunately):
Universal suffrage
Gay rights
Freedom to roam

7. Progress:
Bicycle?
The Internet?

8. Bicycles will be
here even after a
very severe
collapse of the
societies:
Progress as the
progress is in the
progress bar!

9. Progress:
Bicycle?
The Internet?

10. Internet works
when there is
participation and
electricity.
If participation is
banned or there is
no electricity, there
is no internet.

11. Internet is
currently in the
“progress as in the
mushrooms” mode.

12. In the world after
the sensor
revolution (IoT etc)
ambient sensors
can harvest their
own energy.

13. What if we use
these energy
harvesting sensors
as an alternative
internet backbone?

14. Resilient, energy-
independent and
anonymous “smart
dust” internet
would be progress
as in the progress
bar.