Internet Archive
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8:39:01 · 17K views · Jun 9, 2016
Full-day livestream of the 2016 Decentralized Web Summit at the Internet Archive, with speakers including Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee, Brewster Kahle, Cory Doctorow and Mitchell Baker. It explores the technology and impact of a decentralized web.
Cited as primary footage of web pioneers discussing the future of the internet, such as Berners-Lee's concerns.
3 comments from Hacker News
Words on their own are not worth much in the long run. It's easy to pursue well-meaning plans on good days when everything is working like it's supposed to and everywhere you go people seem to be talking about the amazing stuff your "unicorn trajectory" will create. Cory Doctorow had a useful analogy[1]: if you're trying to lose weight, most of the time it isn't very difficult to resist tempting siren's call from the box of cookies in your pantry. Obviously not buying the tempting snack would have been a better (and simpler) idea, but willpower is plentiful on good days. Obviously that's a poor risk assessment: of course it's easy to make the annoying-bug-beneficial choice when it doesn't cost much. The actual test is what happens on a very bad day when you're exhausted and worried about other problems. Most people eventually end up caving and "cheating" on their diet, simply because we're terrible at judging risks and overestimate our ability to resist temptation when it isn't actually being tested. The solution to this problem is to have the humility to admit our weaknesses in assessing risks and how easy it can be to overestimate our own abilities. From that point of views, prudence suggests a good idea might be using the benefits available on good days to prepare for the bad days and moments of weakness. Don't allow the temptation into the house so succumbing to temptation isn't possible or involves a much higher cost. Words that promise that you won't fall to temptation
Any bashing on Named Data Networking? [LINK] Rather than the system getting less reliable exponentially as it scales up, it gets more reliable exponentially as it scales up. [LINK] Integrity and trust are properties of the data; not of the way that you obtain it. [LINK] There's no routing. You get rid of all of the routing chatter. You get rid of all of the routing brittleness. [LINK] We wanted to turn around the incentive structure where right now senders have a lot of power and receivers have basically nothing, they have to eat what they're fed. this video
It can be difficult to make those decisions. But I would say TBL is definitely worried about the future of internet. (Decentralized Web Summit - From The Internet Archive) this video