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The Next Web Is Here And It Will Rock Your World

The Web’s inventor has an upgrade that fixes the bad stuff and makes the good stuff better Note: also available on arthurfontaine.com Great news, everyone! The web is about to get a major upgrade. …

The Next Web

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The Next Web Is Here And It Will Rock Your World
The Next Web Is Here And It Will Rock Your World
The Next Web

9 min read


May 5

The Next Web Reins In Big Tech — and Improves Everything Else

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…

The Next Web

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The Next Web Reins In Big Tech — and Improves Everything Else
The Next Web Reins In Big Tech — and Improves Everything Else
The Next Web

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Feb 15, 2020

The Web’s Getting a New Release

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. …

Web

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The Web’s Getting a New Release
The Web’s Getting a New Release
Web

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Apr 5, 2019

Get Ready for a Much Better Internet

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…

Internet

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Get Ready for a Much Better Internet
Get Ready for a Much Better Internet
Internet

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Feb 10, 2019

An Accidental Death

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…

Fiction

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An Accidental Death
An Accidental Death
Fiction

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Dec 2, 2018

A Better Internet is Coming. Here’s How It Will Look.

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…

Privacy

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A better internet is coming. Here’s how it will look.
A better internet is coming. Here’s how it will look.
Privacy

15 min read


Mar 16, 2016

There’s a Hole in the Internet

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. …

Privacy

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There’s a Hole in the Internet
There’s a Hole in the Internet
Privacy

13 min read


Nov 12, 2015

The Cloudspace Solution

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. …

Privacy

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Privacy

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Arthur Fontaine

Arthur Fontaine

32 Followers

Software product guy, passionate about the web and cybersecurity. And pinball. Info and links at arthurfontaine.com

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