Scripting News: A sustainable web

Friday July 2, 2021; 5:30 PM EDT

I was glad to see my former colleague Jonathan Zittrain write about making the web future-safe. I'd love to work on this with him and others. I don't think the way we're going about it has much of a chance of working.#
I think we'll get better results sooner if we go for a sustainable web. That will require new financial structures and organizations that have longevity built into their models, for example, universities like Harvard. Insurance companies. #
Say I want to give someone $10K to keep some of the domains I've registered going for say 100 years. And I give them say 10GB of static content. Add another $10K.#
Set up systems to keep the archive of the static content up to date. #
And let it be cloneable so many vendors can provide this service for a fee, and let app devs create automatic flows on behalf of users. #
It seems it should be possible from there, if enough people and organizations pay money for longevity, at least it's a start. #

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