I wrote there, linking to this thread, “Social networks of people. Merkle Tree networks of calculations and data storage. Open source networks of software. Mind maps linking ideas together. MerkleWeb could bring it all together in a public-domain unbiased way.”

Venessa, your post here, and what I learned about how the world works through networks in our talks, was one of the influences toward the creation of the MerkleWeb technical documents and hopefully later the creation of a prototype.

The SourceForge description is very technical, but its for purposes better described as “The Future Is Networks”.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/merkleweb
“Absolute minimalist open spec of whats needed to obsolete and rebuild entire Earth infrastructure, as global peer to peer 320 bit (256 space, 64 time) address quine Turing Machine, military-strength Bitcoin-like security on every bit and NAND calculation, from NAND gates, software NAND logic, recursive paravirtual hooks (run Windows, Mac, and Linux on global cloud through VMWare or other emulators) at paravirtual optimized realtime speed. Runs slowly on existing Internet. Best system would be wireless mesh network of new kind of Turing Complete routers. No system has an address. They’re redundant computing power and storage for the 1 global Turing Machine. End to end branch prediction, global rollbacks, snapshots and SVN-like branching whole network, recalculation if 1 bit is found through NAND-level quine Godel-like error checking codes in Merkle Trees. Supports evolvable hardware as paravirtual hook into global address space of SHA256 hash of NAND definition of new hardware. Freedom.”