Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon’s viral article, We Need to Rewild the Internet, set the stage for a whole new policy conversation about internet and web decentralisation in the US and Europe. But what does internet rewilding mean for technologists?
Chokepoints and tech monocultures create global digital fragility, as the Microsoft/Crowdstrike debacle showed all too well, but we have alternatives. We can make different, more resilient choices.
This informative and inspiring keynote works through Web layers, languages, organisations, technologies and applications to show that when it comes to regenerating a decent online habitat for us all to live and flourishing, ecologists have figured a lot of it out already.
