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# The Web We Lost, and The Web We Must Rebuild
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by [Peter Wang](https://twitter.com/pwang)
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This site is a reflection on how the web (and really, how the internet as a whole) has failed. This serves as background reading and context for my interest in the emerging initiatives around "decentralizing the Internet", or the "peer-to-peer web".
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I'm writing this for a technically sophisticated reader. I'm also writing this for myself, to help organize my thoughts on this topic, and to provide an intellectual breadcrumb trail; that's why I provide a "Further Reading & Sources" at the end of each section. I don't expect anyone to read every link, every piece of background material, but I have tried my best to cull & curate so as to present only the best of what I've read so far.
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If you are already convinced that the current Internet/web is broken, you can skip ahead to section 4, "The Root Problems", to see if my formulation of what's broken and what's at stake aligns with your thinking.
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## Contents
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i. [Introduction](0%20Introduction.md)
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I. The Web We Lost
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1. [The Web In 2017 - Structural Failure At Every Level](1%20Web%202017.md)
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* A Beastiary of Obvious Failures
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* The Attention Economy, Servant of Growth Capitalism
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* From Connection to Consumption
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* The Chinese Model
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* An American Model
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2. [The Web We Lost](2%20The%20Web%20We%20Lost.md)
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3. [Centralized Social Media Is Broken By Design](3%20Centralized%20Social%20Media%20Is%20Broken%20By%20Design.md)
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4. [The Root Problems](4%20The%20Root%20Problems.md)
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II. The Web We Need
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1. [Moral Philosphy for Digital Humanity](5%20Moral%20Philosophy%20for%20Digital%20Humanity.md)
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* Why go so deep? Why talk about philosophy??
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* Human communications have undergone a phase transition.
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* Peak words; semantic density of the human cognitive field is at breakdown voltage
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* Four-dimensionality: Digital Humans are all ships of Theseus
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* Sensemaking is not optional (draft)
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* Social Physics
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* Identity, Names, and the Social Field
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* Privacy and Trust
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* Self-hood and agency
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2. [The Humane Network](6%20The%20Humane%20Network.md)
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* The Fundamental Question - What is the right technological infrastructure that supplements, extends, and scales human networks, to achieve greater engagement, deeper trust, and emerges collective intelligence?
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* Computer Networks vs. Social Networks
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* The role of decentralized communication technology in bringing about a new, sustainable human ecology
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* The Internet Is Too Much
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* Anomie (in Clipped Articles Civ 2.0)
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3. What Could Come Next
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* What are current stop-gap tech approaches, and why are they not enough?
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* 4 Layers of Fail
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* Challenges for any distributed data application system
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4. What Should Come Next: A Decentralized Information System
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* Motivating questions (a la Bitcoin's "money no one can stop me from spending")
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* Orthogonalizing transport from representation from identity
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* Computational Trust: bootstrapping from local trust to global reputation; web of trust; a global decentralized credit system
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5. Beaker and Dat
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6. Tech overview/survey, 2018: What About _____?
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* ZeroNet / Zero platform
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* SAFE network
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* Fermat
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* Urbit
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* Ethereum (and ether-related, e.g. https://www.uport.me/) and [Akasha](https://blog.akasha.world/2018/02/10/akasha-beta-emergence/)
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* Blockstack
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* DAOStack / Backfeed
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* Mastodon
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* Matrix
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* IPFS
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* I2P
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* Consensys
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* DFINITY
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* cjdns
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* Solid
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* Syncthing
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* WebTorrent
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* StrongLink
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* Twister
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* Indie
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* Cicada
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* RetroShare
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* Self-sovereign identity
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* Sovrin.org
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* Better hypertext/knowledge systems:
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* FutureOfText.org
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* Xanadu
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III. Civilization 2.0
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* A Brief History of Modern Economics
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* Labor and resource scarcity
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* Fifty years of "As if" growth in a fiat currency bubble
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* The system of the world: Transactional money, Wealth, Risk, and Temporal Novation
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* Centralization of credit and "trust bondage"
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* Collective Intelligence
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IV. Commentaries
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----
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All contents within this site are copyright 2017 by Peter Wang, and licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-SA.
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