The Future of the Web
summary
Argues that URLs and centralized APIs must be replaced by cryptographic hashes so data becomes content-addressable, using a CID primitive and tooling like IPFS developed at Protocol Labs. Shows working prototypes: a Twitter-style feed and a genomics-regression pipeline that reference content by hash, demonstrate offline and multi-hosting, and preserve linkability. Explains the hard problem is consistency and serialization at storage time, not transport, and that content addressing resolves authority and location constraints.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:10The 90s
- 2:04URLs
- 2:43Network Effects
- 3:44Unwind
- 4:19Earl
- 5:02Data Centralization
- 10:51Content Addressability
- 11:47CID
- 13:15Links for Data
- 17:19Network of Data
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