Solving the data problem restores competition and empowers users Note: also available on arthurfontaine.com In Part 1 we covered the mechanics of the next web. This post explains how it fixes your relationship with Big Tech, and showcases the foundational improvements the next web delivers, well, everywhere else in the digital world. To be clear-eyed about it, decades of…

Tim Berners-Lee is upgrading his World Wide Web — See also: There’s a Hole in the Internet (2016); A Better Internet is Coming. Here’s How It Will Look (2018) The World Wide Web is one of the most transformative technologies of the digital era. …

Hey, did you hear they’ve figured out how to fix the Internet? Turns out it wasn’t even all that hard. In fact, all we need to change is one thing: We need to to stop giving our personal data away to strangers. We actually want to do the opposite. We…

It was a raw April morning in Rye, New Hampshire, the kind of day when the wind whips straight onshore from the Atlantic, so that even a mile inland you can smell the pungent sea, and all the dead and living creatures within. At exactly 7 AM, Officer Michael Cooney…

Perhaps you’ve heard about a movement to fix the internet. A solution is being developed that eliminates virtually all the problems we suffer today, while making the internet itself better in every meaningful way. Permanently. And perhaps best of all, it requires only one simple change… Instead of giving your…

The internet’s amazing and all, but it’s missing one really important piece: a tool designed to empower the people who use the internet. …

Let’s fix the Internet — Introduction It’s true: the Internet has forever changed our world. It has empowered us in ways we could never have imagined — ways we now probably couldn’t imagine giving up. …