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How To Break Open The Web
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How To Break Open The Web

Fast Company, 2016

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Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Eye Opening
  • Visionary

Recommendation

People have come to accept that they must trade elements of privacy for permission to access the Internet. But many in the tech world see this exchange as a betrayal of the web’s original promise of freedom for all. Digital media professor Dan Gillmor and software engineer Kevin Marks explore how the present, centralized web emerged; why the limitations that the centralized system imposes deserve critique; and how alternative, decentralized systems might offer a counterbalance to governmental and corporate control of the Internet. getAbstract recommends this article to tech trend watchers and all those interested in Internet freedom.

Take-Aways

  • Privatized, centralized Internet services dominate the World Wide Web.
  • Today’s centralized Internet far exceeds the earlier decentralized Internet in terms of ease-of-use, but it also limits individual privacy and freedom on the web.
  • At the June 2016 Decentralized Web Summit, participants discussed ways to reopen the web and explored “design principles” critical for a decentralized system.

About the Author

Dan Gillmor authored the book Mediactive and teaches digital media at Arizona State University. Kevin Marks is a software engineer who believes “human problems are the most interesting to solve.”


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