# How we need to remake the internet

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2018
- Speaker: Jaron Lanier
- Year: 2018
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Computer science, Society and politics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/jaron_lanier_how_we_need_to_remake_the_internet)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

In the early days of digital culture, Jaron Lanier helped craft a vision for the internet as public commons where humanity could share its knowledge -- but even then, this vision was haunted by the dark side of how it could turn out: with personal devices that control our lives, monitor our data and feed us stimuli. (Sound familiar?) In this visionary talk, Lanier reflects on a "globally tragic, astoundingly ridiculous mistake" companies like Google and Facebook made at the foundation of digital culture -- and how we can undo it. "We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them," he says.

## Lectures

1. [How we need to remake the internet](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/jaron_lanier_how_we_need_to_remake_the_internet/fb1b4bee3691), 15 min (TED's player)