Tim Berners - Lee – information processing system scientist and inventor of the World Wide Web – has arguably done more to change modern life than anyone else on the planet .
The entanglement has come a long way since the nineties , when telephone dial - up Internet , laughable sans , and phrase like " the information highway " and " surfing the web " were still in common use . But what does Berners - Lee recall of his creation in 2018 ?
" I ’ve always believe the web is for everyone . That ’s why I and others crusade fiercely to protect it , " Berners - Lee said himself in an clause published onMedium . " The changes we ’ve managed to bring have created a dependable and more connected world . But for all the right we ’ve achieve , the web has evolved into an engine of inequity and division ; swayed by powerful military group who utilise it for their own agenda . "
But do n’t concern , he has a architectural plan to fix it . In fact , it turn out that Berners - Lee has been very busy operate away on a new subject - source project called Solid .
AsFast Companyexplained in an exclusive published over the weekend , Solid will decentralize the web by returning control of personal data point to each private substance abuser – and out of the hand of the Internet giants . ( You experience , Facebook , Google , Amazon , and the like . ) Solid ’s intention , harmonize to thewebsite , is to " re - orient the web to its original vision . " That is , " to be a collaborative space for all human race . "
Decentralization and controller are the leading values of upstanding and Inrupt , a start - uplaunched Saturday , which will supply the infrastructure that allows Solid to run . It intend that developer can create apps run on data point owned and controlled entirely by the user , who has complete agency when it comes to deciding how and where to store that data – and , importantly , who to share it with .
This is because every bit of data created or added to the weapons platform will be stored within a Solid pod entirely unique to the exploiter . ( Pod stands for personal on-line data store . ) They then make up one’s mind how to apply that data to their applications and elsewhere on the web .
It ’s a scheme that ’s been afoot for years , but Berners - Lee has matt-up increase pressure to get it off the ground as of recent , what with news aboutpolitical employment of the public ’s Facebook data .
" Today , I believe we ’ve reached a decisive tipping percentage point , and that powerful change for the better is possible — and necessary , " headded .
" I ’m fantastically affirmative for this next geological era of the web . "
[ H / T : Fast Company , Medium ]
