Here’s a really interesting segment of an interview with John Batelle in which he discusses his idea of an independent web – a web in which we are in control of our own data, our own identities and where we actively decide how and when to share this data with corporations who we then allow to leverage it (or parts of it) for their own purposes.

 

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