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The wave towards a decentralised internet

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For most people it's not so visible but there is a wave of start-ups busy with building what could be described as a more decentralised internet. As noted in a recent Economist article . The current internet is very centralised and dominated by a few large platforms. Which ofcourse was not the original promise of this technology. No wonder there is lot of enthousiasm about current initiatives like Ethereum, IPFS  , IPDB  , Akasha  to name just a few. But also in the business world, a concept like UETP fits like a glove on earlier named initiatives. For me it shows we may be moving towards a more decentralised internet, which is good thing in my view. Both from the perspective of security and privacy. But also on a more fundamental level, it's good that large platform players like Google, Facebook Microsoft, Amazon etc. will not be completely dominating our information context in our lives. There can and should be places where you as a person are in full control. In my view