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README.md

The Web We Lost, and The Web We Must Rebuild

by Peter Wang

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".

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.

If you are already convinced that the current Internet/web is broken, you can skip ahead to section 3, "The Root Problems", to see if my formulation of what's broken and what's at stake aligns with your thinking.

Contents

  1. Introduction

  2. The Web In 2017 - Structural Failure At Every Level

    • A Beastiary of Obvious Failures
    • The Attention Economy, Servant of Growth Capitalism
    • From Connection to Consumption
    • The Chinese Model
    • An American Model

  3. The Web We Lost

  4. Centralized Social Media Is Broken By Design

  5. The Root Problems

  6. A Humane Network

    • The Core Challenge - What is the right technological infrastructure that supplements, extends, and scales human networks, to achieve greater engagement, deeper trust, and emerges collective intelligence?
    • Computer Networks vs. Social Networks
    • The role of decentralized communication technology in bringing about a new, sustainable human ecology
    • Sensemaking is not optional (draft)
    • The Internet Is Too Much
    • Anomie (in Clipped Articles Civ 2.0)

  7. What Comes Next

    • What are current stop-gap tech approaches, and why are they not enough?
    • 4 Layers of Fail
    • Challenges for any distributed data application system

  8. Beaker and Dat

  9. Appendix A. What About _____?

    • ZeroNet / Zero platform
    • Matrix
    • IPFS
    • Fermat
    • Urbit
    • Ethereum (and ether-related, e.g. https://www.uport.me/)
    • SAFE network
    • Blockstack
    • Mastodon
    • I2P
    • DAOStack / Backfeed
    • Consensys
    • DFINITY
    • cjdns
    • Solid
    • Syncthing
    • WebTorrent
    • StrongLink
    • Twister
    • Indie
    • Cicada
    • RetroShare
    • Sovrin.org
    • Xanadu
    • FutureOfText.org
    • Akasha (on Ethereum):
    • (Hardware stacks)

All contents within this site are copyright 2017 by Peter Wang, and licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-SA.