Sean Everett proposes converting social media posts into binary code that directly controls computers and networks. A single viral post could automatically generate a website or app that spreads across digital infrastructure. He argues most engineers work within one software layer without bridging them.
So I wanted to talk about this idea I had for translating a social media post into bytecode or binary code, ones and zeros that control either single computers or a group of collective computer— computers. That could be a data center, could be something decentralized like the Ethereum nodes or perhaps Bitcoin nodes. So here's the basic idea, right? Um, Typically, most engineers, product teams, businesses are focused on one layer of that stack. They're either writing operating system kernels, they're writing application logic, perhaps just pure AI, um, they're working on social media apps by themselves just to create engagement for users, but nobody has really crossed all of those layers and connected them with the golden thread whereby any individual in the world could do what they're already doing and have been trained to do online for decades, which is post a TikTok video and have that, let's say, create them a website on the fly or an app on the fly that then, you know, gets— goes viral and gets shared automatically across computer networks and human networks. That, I think, is the key because social media posts inherently have this, this desire to go viral. And so the content included in them has encoded within it this virality concept, while computers have within it coded instructions for how to operate. The one missing piece for all of this is a universal translator. So the question you might be asking is, what's the use case? And the answer is, well, that's something you'd have to subscribe to figure out. So head on over to everettadvisors.com/one. Woo!
