Keep this in mind:
"Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. " - Proverbs 9:8.
If he is a Christian, he will thank me later.
It is sometimes a hard call whether to call someone out.
The reality is that the Toki.com project has very little to do with search. That is a feature and it will use OpenSource source codebases where it makes sense to do so.
There is a hardware component and a software component.
The hardware component is a resilient server that can serve up to 500 people for 3 days running just on battery using a server that costs about $60 to produce. It is still in development but it does a LOT.
Here is a photo of a prototype -- it is very real and operational developed by a highly capable computer hardware engineer:
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Just for calibration, It is about the size of a deck of cards.
The software component is also under development. You can already play around with it if you have a Raspberry Pi 4 processor. See here:
https://toki.com/download
The goal is that any community that stands up a Toki server can be a Tokiville. The foundation of that is the so-called Toki OS which you can already download and use.
In its own way, it is a pretty revolutionary idea. It is also safe to say that it is a very different idea than Gorp.
At its core Toki is a decentralized operating system for digital empowerment. It will run a range of applications and have the means to empower shared access to content and applications.
We are experimenting with technologies for connecting this device even in places with very limited telecom infrastructure.
We are also developing shared content libraries which "Digital Librarians" can manage so that Toki servers become decentralized repositories of knowledge.
So, when we talk about working to bring another 1 billion people online in the next 5 years, there is a bit of substance behind that rhetoric. Lord-willing something comes of it.
