Technology leaders are meeting in San Francisco this week to discuss making the Internet a more decentralized, secure, and less censored place, with an emphasis on privacy and preserving history.<\/p>\n
The event, called the Decentralized Web Summit, is focused on \u201clocking the web open.\u201d<\/p>\n
The idea is that the Web could be a place where governments don\u2019t spy or censor information, where culture is preserved, and information is stored in a decentralized way.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Decentralized Web aims to make the Web open, secure and free of censorship by distributing data, processing, and hosting across millions of computers around the world, with no centralized control,\u201d the summit\u2019s website declares.<\/p>\n
Among the speakers at the summit is Tim Berners-Lee, the 1989 creator of the World Wide Web. He spoke about its current shortcomings with The New York Times.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt controls what people see, creates mechanisms for how people interact,\u201d Berners-Lee said. \u201cIt\u2019s been great, but spying, blocking sites, repurposing people\u2019s content, taking you to the wrong websites \u2014 that completely undermines the spirit of helping people create.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another focus is on new digital payment systems\u2014 a move away from entering credit card information and towards new tech that gives people more control and takes the focus away from advertising.<\/p>\n
\u201cAd revenue is the only model for too many people on the web now,\u201d Berners-Lee told the Times. \u201cPeople assume today\u2019s consumer has to make a deal with a marketing machine to get stuff for \u2018free,\u2019 even if they\u2019re horrified by what happens with their data. Imagine a world where paying for things was easy on both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that he thought the Web was \u201calready decentralized,\u201d it just needed more options than \u201cone search engine,\u201d for example.<\/p>\n
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Source: Foxnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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