The web, as it currently exists, has astounding reach and it has greatly enhanced the connectivity of the world and created economic and political and social empowerment in many places. It also has opened up the world’s population to endless and effectively unlimited oversight, “Surveillance Capitalism” as Shoshana Zuboff terms it¹. But computer power increases relentlessly, human inventiveness knows no bounds, and the prospect to reinvent the web, one of the most important tools humanity has yet created, that prospect remains alive. Let’s do it again!
In my Medium post on this subject, I look at the motives to create a new, decentralized web. The framework for thinking of this:
To avoid problems with today’s web
To achieve new, better outcomes
Because we have new technical tools
Of course, this isn’t an attempt to create a centralized vision. Rather, I curated lots of thoughts. Read it HERE.