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Cory Doctorow / 10:51 am Wed, Jun 29, 2016

How to Break Open the Web: a report on the first Decentralized Web Summit

June's Decentralized Web Summit at San Francisco's Internet Archive was a ground-breaking, three-day combination of workshops, lectures, demos and a hackathon, all aimed at figuring out how to restore the decentralized character of the early internet -- and keep it that way. Read the rest

Cory Doctorow / 11:13 am Fri, Jun 24, 2016

How to protect the future web from its founders' own frailty

Earlier this month, I gave the afternoon keynote at the Internet Archive's Decentralized Web Summit, and my talk was about how the people who founded the web with the idea of having an open, decentralized system ended up building a system that is increasingly monopolized by a few companies -- and how we can prevent the same things from happening next time.
Cory Doctorow / 1:05 pm Mon, Jun 20, 2016

Video: Guarding the Decentralized Web from its founders' human frailty

Earlier this month, I gave the afternoon keynote at the Internet Archive's Decentralized Web Summit, speaking about how the people who are building a new kind of decentralized web can guard against their own future moments of weakness and prevent themselves from rationalizing away the kinds of compromises that led to the centralization of today's web. Read the rest