Kernel Module 3: Take Back The Web
Week 3 of the Kernel Learn Track, which explores the long history of ideas for building an open web and ensuring anyone, anywhere can access the stored knowledge of humanity.
Thus far, we’ve considered how trust, value, meaning, money, and speech relate to our new, global financial system built on an open public ledger. We’ve explored Web 3 ideas, built prototypes, and shared incredible mainnet projects with mentors and peers. With this week, we turn towards two fundamentally related topics: the internet and our intentions. How do we free the shared record of human knowledge from the rent-seeking attention economy? What are our intentions once it has been handed over to our care? And what does freedom really mean? We make the case that actions (read: building Web 3 startups) are incredibly important but still pale in comparison to intentions. How can we as technologists improve the world if we cannot improve ourselves? We conclude that taking back the web has to do with three fundamental pillars: augmenting our ability to think for ourselves, reclaiming our time, and extending our ability to co-operate. Don’t take our word for it though: We hope you explore the ideas yourself as you consider how we might Take Back The Web :) one of my very favorites. We hope you enjoy it.
We'll dive in across the required and suggested readings alongside esteemed guest Juan Benet, and we will talk around intentions and freedom behind "Taking back the web"
Join us with Sam Williams, Founder of Arweave to discuss Module 3's readings -- intention, freedom, and taking back the web. Sam is one of the web 3 industry’s most brilliant minds and has spent the last 5 years working on the ‘permaweb’ — preserving history by making information permanence sustainable.
We’re thrilled to have Eva Beylin, Director of Graph Foundation to discuss Module 3's readings -- intention, freedom, and taking back the web. Why did the initial visions for the world wide web not work out quite as their inventors intended? It seems that it boils down to the incentives for building it. In some ways, you can consider the last 3 weeks to have been an extended consideration of how we might alter the incentive structures on which our society runs using global, borderless, ownerless protocols for money. You've been led through how to think about a vastly interconnected world, and can reason coherently about critical concepts like trust, value , meaning, money and speech. It's time to apply these ideas to the ultimate problem: how to free the shared record of human knowledge from closed, rent-seeking corporations and extricate ourselves from an extractive attention economy.
How do we free the shared record of human knowledge from the rent-seeking attention economy? What does freedom really mean? And what are our intentions with the internet once it has been handed over to our care? We posit that taking back the web has to do with three fundamental pillars: expanding our ability to think for ourselves, reclaiming time, and extending our ability to co-operate.
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