This is a common network problem.

How would you describe the problem?

Don't be sad. I introduced the Holographic theory partly in response to your early reference to 'The Matrix.'

The Wachovya brothers partly based their film plot on this theory and of course science fiction. But the point is the same: the world we see is not real. It is a hologram, an illusion, projected by a 'master programmer.' Our senses cheat us that it is real.

Of course Hollywood needs excitement so they had to have kick ass fight sequences; a bunch of villains and a love interest to spice things up.

The simple fact is you are the Master programmer; the software is 'Consciousness' and the hardware is the Singularity.

It was a favourite film and I watched, nay, studied it several times over.

On the face of it, it is about escaping the realm to attain higher status. I agree about your observations about it though I don't agree with it.

Inside out, upside down, black is white.

What kind of 'control' does your answer imply?

In 'this' network, how are ignorance and knowledge distributed, and how and by whom or what, is this distribution and flow regulated?

The writer wants a better Facebook. Why?

Isn't it reasonable that the users need to play a positive role in creating a better Facebook? How is responsibility and power distributed in a network?

Do users have adequate digital and cultural education to use such networks? Surely, expecting a network to be about the simple functions like meeting lost friends, the network provides infinite opportunity for infinite activities.

How do we find a balance?

http://www.theguardian.c...-communications-nsa-spy

Dynamic 'network languages'?