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Here are some thoughts on the factual accuracy and overlooked points in your text:

• The timeline seems optimistic. While Gemini and Gopher protocols have gained some popularity recently among tech enthusiasts, adoption by the mainstream population in 2023 seems unlikely. These protocols are still quite niche.
• You mention Lagrange Browser as if it's already released and gaining traction, but my understanding is that it is still in early development. So speaking about it as if it's already widely used is premature.
• The claim that Gemini is now "well established" is debatable. While there are dedicated Gemini sites and proxies to the web, the overall size of the network and content availability is still tiny compared to the traditional web.
• You suggest that reading text on Gemini will be a seamless experience on phones, but the reality is that many sites are still not optimized for mobile. And Gemini currently lacks features like responsive design that make mobile web browsing smooth.
• The assertion that there is already "substantial quantities of content" on Gemini is subjective. While active, the network is still niche with limited content compared to the broader web.
• The implication that Gemini is built entirely by volunteers with no financial motives is an oversimplification. Like any tech ecosystem, there are mixture of motivations. Some may profit from services built on top of the protocols.
• The prediction that revenue models like subscriptions will succeed on Gemini is speculative. The community's willingness to pay is still untested.

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Overall, you make some thoughtful points about the potential benefits of text-focused protocols. But the timeline and current state of adoption seem idealized. Providing a more measured perspective on where things stand could strengthen your position.

write an blog article on the refurbishment of textual information.

Theme is that written text is an ancient way to transfer and creat ideas. There is something in the human mind and reading that is synergistic and extraordinary.

In recent years great efforts have been applied to improving text with media and ads. The concept being that we need the text explained to us with images and shiny things like child, or that we need ads to pay for even more improvements to text.

The skills for using your own mind to create worlds purely from text are being compromised.

Enough effort has now been applied to the problem to to create a refubished text interface that is comfortable to the masss market.

The less consumed long texts (books) were never a problem as ebook software and devices were created early in the tech age and rapidly eccepted.

The mainstream short texts, as in news current affairs, blogs, chat, etc. all went to te world wide web and were degraded by the experience.

I describe the refurbishing text from my experience:

The smartphone and its relatives feature phones are now becoming available to the majority of the population.

The arrival of the beta of Lagrange Browser to Android and iPhone is the first Gemini and Gopher browser that will be immediately familiar and comfortable to the mass of the tech generation. This is the tipping point.

The Gemini protocol is the domain in which Lagrange operates is a text first protocol which also allows the loading of supplementaty media when you and if you need it.

The Gemini Protocol is now well established both with its own gemini first assets and many Web (http) proxies that allow Web sites to be stripped back to the core assets.

You can now read fast clean text from the device in your hand via a comfortable and familiar interace like the browser you use all day. Because it is so lean you can be unconcerned about cost and speed of delivery anywhere any time.

At this time there is already substantial quantities of content to read that has been encoded specifically for the network. Also much of the Web is available through proxies, but that reprocessed content cannot be as elegant and consumable as first intention encoding.

Here is the problem.

All of this is done free of advertising and subscription revenue. The whole structure has been built by people with faith in the objective with no expectation of payment.

So this is where you come in.

First, go online and use the network, it will encourage the altruistic people working to provide the data and the plumbing.

Second, if these people experiment with revenue models, like subscriptions, support them. This protocol is designed to be advertising free and even altruists ned to eat.