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World Congress 2023 • Aug 11, 2023

Opening Keynote by Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee

Sir Tim Berners-Lee asserts that walled gardens have broken the web. Discover how decentralized Solid pods and local AI empower developers to dismantle monopolies and restore user sovereignty.

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#1 about 3 min

Incompatible systems and document formats at early CERN

Early computing environments at CERN lacked standardized document formats across various incompatible operating systems.

#2 about 3 min

Designing HTTP and HTML for familiar document sharing

Combining existing network foundations with novel application protocols and markup languages generated accessible hypermedia sharing.

#3 about 3 min

Driving early web contribution through long tail economics

Simple interactive blogging tools and basic hit counters motivated massive initial user participation online.

#4 about 2 min

How web applications and javascript created data silos

The transition to rich browser experiences inadvertently trapped user content inside isolated corporate web applications.

#5 about 2 min

Enabling interoperability with uniform interfaces and global authorization

Standardizing decentralized identity and authorization interfaces allows independent frontends to modify distinct object graphs.

#6 about 3 min

Shifting business logic to the browser with commodity backends

Utilizing commodity data pods eliminates the traditional need to rewrite backend endpoints for interface changes.

#7 about 2 min

Standardizing application data schemas for scalable personal pods

Adopting standardized data schemas across personal pods lets multiple applications seamlessly interpret identical stored resources.

#8 about 5 min

Scaling personal data storage with enterprise solid infrastructure

Commercial software providers and government initiatives are starting to successfully deploy scalable autonomous pod networks.

#9 about 4 min

Sandboxing large language models and managing artificial intelligence risks

The unpredictable associative capabilities of massive inference models demand strict local sandboxing to prevent misuse.

#10 about 5 min

Localizing large language models directly with personal pod data

Fine-tuning foundation models exclusively on trusted personal repositories ensures generative output maintains strict individual privacy.

#11 about 2 min

Empowering developers to architect software prioritizing user benefit

Embracing generic local protocols gives software teams the agency to build inherently user-first architectural models.

#12 about 5 min

Reflections on internet scaling, centralized dns, and code formatting

Early technical decisions favoring centralized domain resolution inadvertently embedded scaling limitations directly into internet architecture.

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