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This serves as background reading and context for my interest in the emerging initiatives around \"decentralizing the Internet\", or the \"peer-to-peer web\".\n\nI'm writing this for a technically sophisticated reader.  I'm also writing this for myself, to help organize my thoughts on this topic, and to provide an intellectual breadcrumb trail; that's why I provide a \"Further Reading \u0026 Sources\" at the end of each section.  I don't expect anyone to read every link, every piece of background material, but I have tried my best to cull \u0026 curate so as to present only the best of what I've read so far.\n\nIf you are already convinced that the current Internet/web is broken, you can skip ahead to section 4, \"The Root Problems\", to see if my formulation of what's broken and what's at stake aligns with your thinking.\n\n## Contents\n\n i. [Introduction](0%20Introduction.md)\n \nI. The Web We Lost\n\n   1. [The Web In 2017 - Structural Failure At Every Level](1%20Web%202017.md)\n       * A Beastiary of Obvious Failures\n       * The Attention Economy, Servant of Growth Capitalism\n       * From Connection to Consumption\n       * The Chinese Model\n       * An American Model\n\n   2. [The Web We Lost](2%20The%20Web%20We%20Lost.md)\n\n   3. [Centralized \"Social Media\" Is Harmful By Construction](3%20Centralized%20Social%20Media%20Is%20Broken%20By%20Design.md)\n\n   4. [The Root Problems](4%20The%20Root%20Problems.md)\n\nII. The Web We Need\n\n 1. [Moral Philosphy for Digital Humanity](5%20Moral%20Philosophy%20for%20Digital%20Humanity.md)\n\n    * Why go so deep?  Why talk about philosophy??\n      * Human communications have undergone a phase transition.\n      * Peak words; semantic density of the human cognitive field is at breakdown voltage\n      * Four-dimensionality: Digital Humans are all ships of Theseus\n      * Sensemaking is not optional (draft)\n    * Social Physics\n        * Identity, Names, and the Social Field\n        * Privacy and Trust\n        * Self-hood and agency\n\n 2. [The Humane Network](6%20The%20Humane%20Network.md)\n    * The Fundamental Question - What is the right technological infrastructure that supplements, extends, and scales human networks, to achieve greater engagement, deeper trust, and emerges collective intelligence?\n    * Computer Networks vs. Social Networks\n    * The role of decentralized communication technology in bringing about a new, sustainable human ecology\n    * The Internet Is Too Much\n    * Anomie (in Clipped Articles Civ 2.0)\n\n 3. What Could Come Next\n    * What are current stop-gap tech approaches, and why are they not enough?\n    * 4 Layers of Fail\n    * Challenges for any distributed data application system\n\n 4. What Should Come Next: A Decentralized Information System\n    * Motivating questions (a la Bitcoin's \"money no one can stop me from spending\")\n    * Orthogonalizing transport from representation from identity\n    * Computational Trust: bootstrapping from local trust to global reputation; web of trust; a global decentralized credit system\n\n 5. Beaker and Dat\n\n 6. Tech overview/survey, 2018: What About _____?\n    * ZeroNet / Zero platform\n    * SAFE network\n    * Fermat\n    * Urbit\n    * Ethereum (and ether-related, e.g. https://www.uport.me/) and [Akasha](https://blog.akasha.world/2018/02/10/akasha-beta-emergence/)\n    * Blockstack\n    * DAOStack / Backfeed\n    * Mastodon\n    * Matrix\n    * IPFS\n    * I2P\n    * Consensys\n    * DFINITY\n    * cjdns\n    * Solid\n    * Syncthing\n    * WebTorrent\n    * StrongLink\n    * Twister\n    * Indie\n    * Cicada\n    * RetroShare\n    * Self-sovereign identity\n      * Sovrin.org\n    * Better hypertext/knowledge systems:\n      * FutureOfText.org\n      * Xanadu\n    \nIII. Civilization 2.0\n\n  * A Brief History of Modern Economics\n     * Labor and resource scarcity\n     * Fifty years of \"As if\" growth in a fiat currency bubble\n     * The system of the world: Transactional money, Wealth, Risk, and Temporal Novation\n     * Centralization of credit and \"trust bondage\"\n\n  * Collective Intelligence\n\n\nIV. Commentaries\n\n\n----\n\nAll contents within this site are copyright 2017 by Peter Wang, and licensed under Creative Commons CC-BY-SA.\n\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fpzwang%2Flostweb","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Fpzwang%2Flostweb","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Fpzwang%2Flostweb/lists"}