Tim (Www.) Berners-Lee: I Minor Pace For The Web…

We've been next Sir Tim's rather audacious thought for a few months forthwith together with if he tin give the axe push clitoris it off it changes things equally much equally did the WorldWideWeb. So, although a calendar month old, this mini-manifesto is in all probability worth a look.
Posted at Medium, Sept. 29:

I’ve ever believed the spider web is for everyone. That’s why I together with others struggle fiercely to protect it. The changes we’ve managed to convey select created a meliorate together with to a greater extent than connected world. But for all the expert we’ve achieved, the spider web has evolved into an engine of inequity together with division; swayed past times powerful forces who purpose it for their ain agendas.

Today, I believe we’ve reached a critical tipping point, together with that powerful modify for the meliorate is possible — and necessary.

This is why I have, over recent years, been working amongst a few people at MIT together with elsewhere to railroad train Solid, an open-source projection to restore the ability together with way of individuals on the web.

Solid changes the electrical current model where users select to manus over personal information to digital giants inward telephone commutation for perceived value. As we’ve all discovered, this hasn’t been inward our best interests. Solid is how nosotros evolve the spider web inward lodge to restore balance — by giving every i of us consummate command over data, personal or not, inward a revolutionary way.

Solid is a platform, built using the existing web. It gives every user a choice nigh where information is stored, which specific people together with groups tin give the axe access select elements, together with which apps you lot use. It allows you, your identify unit of measurement together with colleagues, to link together with portion information amongst anyone. It allows people to expect at the same information amongst dissimilar apps at the same time.

Solid unleashes incredible opportunities for creativity, problem-solving together with commerce. It volition empower individuals, developers together with businesses amongst alone novel ways to conceive, construct together with discovery innovative, trusted together with beneficial applications together with services. I encounter multiple marketplace possibilities, including Solid apps together with Solid information storage.

Data should empower you

Solid is guided past times the regulation of “personal empowerment through data” which nosotros believe is key to the success of the side past times side era of the web. We believe information should empower each of us.

Imagine if all your electrical current apps talked to each other, collaborating together with conceiving ways to enrich together with streamline your personal life together with concern objectives? That’s the sort of innovation, tidings together with inventiveness Solid apps volition generate.

With Solid, you lot volition select far to a greater extent than personal way over data — you create upward one's heed which apps tin give the axe access it.

Injecting momentum

In 2009, I said, “The spider web equally I envisaged it nosotros select non seen yet.” That was because people were using the spider web simply for documents, non for the information of a big web-wide computer. Since then, nosotros select seen a moving ridge of opened upward data, but non of read-write data. For example, much opened upward authorities information is produced through a one-way pipeline, hence nosotros tin give the axe only sentiment it. With Solid, it becomes a read-write spider web where users tin give the axe interact together with innovate, collaborate together with share.

Meanwhile though, at that spot is a moving ridge of concern, together with related energy, desperate for change. People desire to select a spider web they tin give the axe trust. People desire apps that assist them make what they desire together with necessitate to do — without spying on them. Apps that don’t select an ulterior motive of distracting them amongst propositions to purchase this or that. People volition pay for this sort of character together with assurance. For example, today people pay for storage inward places similar Dropbox. There is a necessitate for Solid, together with the different, beneficial approach it volition provide....MORE

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