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35 lines
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# Rethinking the Internet
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**Understanding the Three Layers of the Internet**
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The Internet is made of 3 layers:
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1. **Compute & Storage:** This layer houses applications and is predominantly centralized, operating from vast data centers.
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2. **Network:** The network layer facilitates the movement of information, whether it's wireless, via cables like fiber, or through satellite links. Today, information often travels long distances, with a few companies controlling over 80% of the internet’s network capacity.
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3. **Applications:** These are hosted in large data centers, relying on the centralized compute and storage layers. This centralization makes the system vulnerable.
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**Current Challenges**
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Digital information primarily flows through extensive fiber backbone networks, as shown here:
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The internet’s design causes inefficiencies, such as when two people in Zanzibar use a service like Zoom. Their data travels all the way to European data centers where Zoom's servers are hosted and back, leading to slow performance, decreased reliability, and increased costs.
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**Issues with Autonomy and Sovereignty**
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Our current internet model compromises autonomy and sovereignty. Most data is stored in large data centers controlled by a few major corporations, effectively turning users into products.
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Moreover, the internet is replicated many times across various applications, each requiring its own full infrastructure. This approach is unsustainable and inefficient.
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