The Zen of Reticulum
The Illusion Of The Center
For the better part of a generation, we have been taught to visualize the digital world through the lens of hierarchy. The mental maps we carry are dominated by a single, misleading image: The Cloud.
We imagine the network as a vast, ethereal space “up there” or “out there”. A centralized repository of services and data to which we, the lowly clients, must connect. We build our software with this assumption hardcoded into our logic: There is a server. The server has the authority. The server knows the way. I must find the server to function.
This is the Client-Server mental model, and it is the primary obstacle to understanding #Reticulum.
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