They gave us a fully decentralized Internet and we used it to build web services–Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, iCloud–so massively centralized they verge on being quasi-medieval fiefdoms. Now we’re building the Internet of Someone Else’s Things , wherein every room of every home will contain devices controlled by servers the homeowners don’t know, control, or understand. What is wrong with us?
Don’t try to blame ignorant, tech-illiterate users. The world’s software developers do exactly the same […]
