How Will Blockchain Technology Affect the Future of the Internet?

摘要

Today, the Web is indispensable in daily life. However, the Web has become centralized, because of business models. The centralized Web has brought a few major issues that will likely get worse in the near future. In this paper, we discuss problems of the centralized Web and the necessity of decentralized Web, the potential of blockchain for decentralized web architecture. And then, we also discuss the decentralized web architecture that circumvents Internet gatekeepers like Google and Facebook and takes control of our data back from the giant social media companies.