Worth reading:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/01/1004725/redesign-internet-apps-no-one-controls-data-privacy-innovation-cloud
MIT Technology Review
"A plan to redesign the internet could make apps that no one controls"
“My sole goal is to take data away from the corporations and put it back with the people,” says founder David Irvine.
It's possible that the internet may be forced to change whether the average user cares or not. “Privacy regulations could become so restrictive that companies will be forced to move to a more decentralized model,” says Kagal. “They might realize that storing and collecting all this personal information is just not worth their while anymore.”
But all of this assumes that the internet can be weaned off its core business model of advertising, which determines both the minutiae of data collection and the balance of power at the top. Dfinity believes that making the internet a free market again will lead to a boom in innovation like the one we saw in the dot-com days, with startups exploring new ways to make money that don’t rely on indiscriminate processing of personal data. Kagal hopes that more people will choose to pay for services rather than using freemium ones that make money from ads.
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Interesting MBA Dissertation: BACK TO THE FUTURE: SCENARIO PLANNING FOR INTERNET RE-DECENTRALIZATION
Abstract: This dissertation investigates two emerging global mega-trends which are aptly described as a lack of faith in monetary policy and increasing symptoms of internet architecture failure. Both of these trends produce symptoms which stem from unbridled and unchecked centralization on multiple fronts: political, social, technological, and even philosophical, among countless others. Under the general banner of decentralization as an emerging countertrend, the innovation of Bitcoin and its underlying technological solution to the philosophical and practical problem of distributed consensus through a creative use of cryptography have ignited thought-leaders in their research to develop technologies which have massive disruptive implications for the world. These technologies will parallel or even replace core assumptive architectures currently underpinning the developed world while also providing legitimate reform propositions for the two problems described. The rise of the digital economy has been driven by the monetization of personal information. These technologies reverse the personal data-mining, advertising, and surveillance capitalism model of the digital economy through decentralization so that the users once again have greater privacy, security, and control over their money and data while simultaneously allowing for a thriving digital economy through tokenization and incorruptible monetary policy. After having conferred with relevant literature to fill in the background plot and confirm assumptions, a scenario planning technique was applied to the potential emergence of a decentralized autonomous internet, e.g. SAFE Network, to produce four fictional future scenarios for how such a technology will impact the ecosystem of the current internet and strategies for companies in the database and cloud markets to prepare for such changes. Being such a broad and all-encompassing topic as well as a focus more on the general business implications, the outcomes should not be taken definitively nor as all encompassing but as contours of an initial medium-term forecast.
Keyword: internet stack;decentralization;Bitcoin;privacy;distributed networks;national debt;data security;monetary policy;SAFE Network;Maidsafe;cryptography.