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b'Does the Web need reopening? Let\\u2019s start with one more thought from Survival of the Richest:\\n\\nOf course, it wasn\\u2019t always this way. There was a brief moment, in the early 1990s, when the digital future felt open-ended and up for our invention. Technology was becoming a playground for the counterculture, who saw in it the opportunity to create a more inclusive, distributed, and pro-human future. But established business interests only saw new potentials for the same old extraction, and too many technologists were seduced by unicorn IPOs.\\xa0\\n\\n--Too bad that\\u2019s all over and can never come again. Oh, wait.\\n\\nThe web had failed to serve humanity: Tim Berners-Lee was crushed when Russia used Facebook to meddle in U.S. elections\\n\\nWorld wide web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee said he was \\u201cdevastated\\u201d by recent abuses of the web, in an interview with Vanity Fair.\\n\\nHe is working on a new platform, named Solid, to re-decentralise the internet and take power away from monopolies like Google and Facebook.\\n\\nHe still has hope that the internet can become a something that serves humanity well.\\n\\nThe Decentralized Internet Is Here, With Some Glitches\\n\\nAn attempt to do this was also the major story arc of the last two seasons of Silicon Valley.\\xa0\\n\\nWhat will a re-opened web look like?\\n\\nMore like the original blogosphere?\\n\\nWhat will we do with it?\\xa0\\n\\nHow will we use it differently?\\n\\nWT 456-773\\n\\nEternity Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) | Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\\n\\nImage from Pixabay.com'