What do I care the open web is dying?

Some of you might have read my previous article, Against an Increasingly User Hostile Web. In it, I argue that we are replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditises people. I talk about how the modern web of surveillance, bloat and walled gardens is at odds with the open web that I love.

If you know to look, you can feel the difference between software crafted with care for its users and systems of vacuous tradition that just happen to be good at producing the vapid fodder of convenience.

If you assume that the pace of change in consumer-facing Internet stays high, and that it gets more compelling over time, then in the long run the only options are a) be careful what you use, or b) accept that you're outsourcing a growing share of your decisions to product managers and growth hackers who do not necessarily have your interests at he... See more

The vision of an internet computer strikes so many chords with me, and connects back to what I’ve wanted to create since forever. It’s not enough to just be the browser that most people choose. We need to make the web computing model work better, and it’s going to take another step function or two to get there. To me, that’s about evolving the brow... See more