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"My bias was always to build decentralization into the net. That way it would be hard for one group to gain control. I didn’t trust large central organizations.
by chaostheory 10y ago
"My bias was always to build decentralization into the net. That way it would be hard for one group to gain control. I didn’t trust large central organizations. It was just in my nature to distrust them." -- Bob Taylor
- sswaner 10y agoPowerful statement from one who, while part of a giant centralized organization initiated the most important decentralized system we will likely ever know.
- mirimir 10y agoIt is just so utterly amazing that we've inherited an Internet built by people like this. Utterly amazing.
- mortenjorck 10y agoYep. In almost any other alternate universe, we ended up with an oligarchy of private digital information services, each acting as gatekeepers to its own exclusive internet. It's hard to fathom the innovation that would have been prevented by the much higher barriers to entry in such a world, and just how much intellectually richer we are from Taylor's radical vision winning out.