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collections/abundance_internet/architecture/internet_bandwidth_problem.md

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+# Internet Bandwidth problem
+
+The internet is not optimized, most data should stay local but it actually travels very far away.
+
+![alt_text](img/internet_distance.png )
+
+## Status Quo
+
+When two individuals in Zanzibar want to communicate, for example over a zoom call, their transmitted data must follow an incredibly lengthy and expensive journey; 
+- the message must travel to the central Zanzibar internet exchange
+- it then crosses in one of two sea cables to mainland Tanzania
+- the message undergoes a very long journey to a European or American internet exchange
+- in Europe, the message is routed to Zoom's datacentre where it is processed.
+- Finally, the message is sent back along the entire route to the second person
+
+**This situation is not sustainable!**
+
+There are five primary issues:
+- Data must travel over such a long distance, increasing transmission times and increasing the energy consumption of the infrastructure along the route.
+- Crucial bandwidth with the rest of the world is used up, meaning that critical communication is delayed for unreasonably long periods of time. 
+- Data is not owned by Zanzibar or its people; it is owned by multinational corporations in the West.
+- If those two undersea cables digitally connecting Zanzibar to the rest of the world were ever damaged, the entire internet within Zanzibar would fail as well. Two residents would no longer be able to communicate with each other over the internet.
+- Transmitted data is far less secure and has a far greater attack surface.
+
+## Threefold Alternative
+
+We present an alternative solution in which data remains within zanzibar and we avoid all of the issues above. The journey will be massively simplified; the first individual interacts with their twin to send a message to the second individual's twin, where it is immediately accessible.

collections/abundance_internet/architecture/internet_bandwidth_problem_2.md

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+# Internet Bandwidth problem
+
+
+The internet is not optimized, most data should stay local but it actually travels very far away.
+
+
+![alt_text](img/internet_distance.png )
+

collections/abundance_internet/architecture/internet_today.md

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+
+## The Internet Today
+
+![alt_text](img/today_internet.png )
+
+
+The internet today is constructed in a centralized way, we exist many times and became a product of big centralized corporations. There is also a real cyber pandemic going on; there are cyber attacks everywhere and backdoors in most of the electronic equipment we use. This architecture is unsafe, not scalable, power hungry and unable to deliver equality. Still, more than half of our planet does not have decent affordable access to the internet.
+
+
+Blockchain technology is a huge step in the right direction but it's a shared architecture distributed over the world where data gets replicated in many locations. It is a good technology choice for use-cases like money, smart contracts, voting, digital notary services and identity management but not at all suited for building a new internet. This is also called web4. Developers still need to develop applications connecting to multiple blockchains and centralization is often not good enough.

collections/abundance_internet/architecture/remade_architecture.md

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+
+## Web Re-Made Architecture
+
+
+![alt_text](img/web_remade_architecture.png )
+
+
+We are brainwashed about the need to centralize and control everything. As such, we produce suboptimal systems and a lot of waste. Web 1,2 are all centralized by nature. The best the world has been able to come up with is a shared consensus driven architecture called blockchain which is good for certain use cases but suboptimal for many more. 
+
+The solution is actually very simple, you should be the center of your digital life, you own all your data; you are your own application (we call this your digital twin), we believe +90% of your digital needs can be implemented that way. Blockchain technology is needed for items where consensus is required like identity, money, smart contracts...
+
+
+![alt_text](img/twin_infrastructure.png )
+
+
+There is a need for a co-owned global Internet infrastructure on top of which each of us can exist digitally, this is a dramatically different architecture with no centralization whatsoever and offering 100% equality as well as full data and application ownership. This has never been done because it's so different in design and is incompatible with big money-making corporations maintaining control.
+
+The twins live on top of the ThreeFold Grid which is a co-owned infrastructure layer where every Internet Farmer makes money by providing storage, compute and network capacity to the people around them.
+
+The twins communicate with each other and the rest of the world (existing centralized services) as well as existing blockchain technologies. The twin data uses a novel storage technology which makes sure your data is safe and can never get lost, yet it's only owned by you and not even a quantum computer can hack it.
+
+![alt_text](img/digital_twin.png )
+
+