Decentralized Web: Although the Internet has created millions of new opportunities for people around the world and brought human knowledge to anyone connected, it has also created many problems that seem impossible to solve.
"Edward Snowden proved that we accidentally created the world's largest surveillance network with the internet", Said Brewster Kahle, who is in charge of the Internet Archive.
And he is not wrong: governments around the world are watching what their citizens have access to on the Internet, and we have often encountered censorship in an attempt to control what they think.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, ο οποίος εφηύρε το World Wide Web, πιστεύει ότι ο τρόπος που λειτουργεί σήμερα το διαδίκτυο “υπονομεύει πλήρως το πνεύμα δημιουργίας των ανθρώπων.”
To that end, Berners-Lee, Brewster Kahle, and other pioneers of the modern Web are brainstorming ideas for a new kind of information network that cannot be controlled by governments or powered by big corporations like Amazon and Google.
Along with other experts such as the co-creator of the TCP/IP protocol, Vint Cerf, Mitchell Baker of Mozilla Project και τον ειδικό σύμβουλο Cory Doctorow του Electronic Frontier Foundation, θα συγκεντρωθούν στη σύνοδο κορυφής Decentralized Web to be held in San Francisco to discuss how to create and maintain the new kind of Internet.
Decentralized Web panelists and speakers will also discuss the use of augmented encryption methods for more accountability from authorities who want access to data, as well as to reduce content creators' and publishers' dependence on ad revenue by developing secure, direct, subscriber-based cryptocurrency payment methods.
But while it is quite comforting to know that big brains are preparing to address issues that affect every user on the Web, it is frightening to think that all those who have found a way to spoil the internet by converting it to what is currently likely will destroy and the next.
The Decentralized Web Summit kicked off today at 8 June and ends 9 tomorrow. You can see livestream at site of the event.
