This week the Internet Archive hosted an amazing Decentralized Web Summit , which united the makers who want to build a web "that's locked open for good." [ Watch the videos here .] Vint Cerf was there, as was the technical product development leader for Microsoft's own decentralized identity efforts, several companies building the so-called punk rock Internet , "along with a handful of venture capitalists looking for opportunities." One talk even included Mike Judge , the creator of HBO's Silicon Valley, which recently included the decentralized web in its ongoing storyline Computing highlighted remarks by Brewster Kahle, the founder of the Internet Archive, and Mitchell Baker, the chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation.Tristan Harris, who leads the Center for Humane Technology, "just hopes the pioneers of the new internet turn around to face the potential negative externalities of their products before it's too late," arguing that "If we decentralize the systems we already have without an honest recognition of the social harms that are being created -- mental health [issues], loneliness, addiction, polarization, conspiracy theories... then we've decentralized social harms and we can't even track them ." But Tim Berners-Lee "remains hopeful".