The Dawn of the Distibuted Web
The weather is a-changing
the storms be shaking
The love that you take
is equal to the love you’re making
Here comes the sun little darling
here comes the sun
Robert del Naja
Everyone more or less Internet-literate saw this coming. Search engines and social networks messing with the users’ privacy, governments believing that it’s OK to wiretap the Internet, censor it or even block it altogether, big content lobbying for draconian copyright laws and believing that it can take entire sites down just because they use innovation to cut into their massive superprofits. The Internet hesitated for a while, believing that it could still come to terms with the armies of bureaucrats, lawyers and content producers, but in a while it became clear that all they are trying to do is to piggyback on the technological revolution, contributing as little as they can while trying to squeeze as much out of it as possible.
That’s why a massive trend shift towards a fully distributed Internet is all but unexpected. Users want to be in control of their info, thoughts, services and communications, and to decide for themselves about what tools they’re going to use and how to use them. All of this points to the plummeting level of regular users’ trust in any central authority, be it their government or their email provider. Continue Reading…