# The Future is Here. What's Drupal got to do with it?

# The Future is Here

## What's Drupal got to do with it?

#### etherpad.mozilla.org/future-here

#### @mlncn
agaric.com

Andy Greenberg: Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It

## The future is already here—

Robin Capper, Cell phone towers powered by solar panels, Nepal

## it’s just not very evenly distributed.

IndyDina, "Moundsville Penitentiary, West Virginia"
Azuri Technologies, Rwanda pay-as-you-go
jekyllrb.com

## Companies with valuations based largely on your data

- Acxiom ($1.3B)
- Uber ($41B)
- Palantir Technologies ($10B)
- Yelp ($1.47B)
- Facebook ($255B)
- Google ($403B)

peggydavis66, "Coal power plant"
Steve Jurvetson, "Solar Rainbow greeting me as I awoke on my birthday"

- We are the network. We effect (create, cause, bring into being) the value.
- Open platforms have disadvantages to closed: in making up-front investment (one entity controlling a platform can capture the value more easily), can be easier to make a good user experience
- Open platforms have advantages over closed: more companies can try their ideas, more different needs can be served (long tail).

- Share data
- ???
- Profit

# Gardeneuron.net

#### etherpad.mozilla.org/future-here

#### benjamin melançon

##### ben@agaric.com

##### @mlncn

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Distributed data and processing

Bitcoin minus mining equals the future we deserve.
- This results in viable business models for free data.