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Decentralisation

Many small nodes and no central operator: the web's original shape, and the alternative to platforms that own the users and the data.

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  1. 2026

  2. reviewThe Web Was the Training Set

    Tim Berners-Lee's memoir is the story of a British engineer at a Franco-Swiss lab giving a protocol away. Read in 2026, it is also the origin story of AI's data supply.

    History of technologyHypertextOpen standardsTraining dataDecentralisationData sovereigntyAgents

    16 min

  3. 2025

  4. Looking back on 2025

    On reading Tim Berners-Lee in Okinawa, and why AI might accidentally save the web from itself.

    The open webDecentralisationAttention economyPrivacyOpen standardsEdge systemsThis site

    7 min

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