Reweaving the Web

""Whitt sets out an aspirational world in which digital technology becomes more helpful and less threatening. Definitely thought provoking!"" - Vint Cerf, Chief Internet Evangelist, Google, and co-father of the Internet ""Richard Whitt brilliantly and meticulously constructs a complete overlay of the WWW (GliaNet) that is built on trust, where each of us enjoys autonomy and agency to control our data and safely use technology to benefit humanity."" - Susan Ness, former Commissioner, US Federal Communications Commission; Distinguished Fellow, Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania ""Whitt's Reweaving the Web starts from a place that brought me, and many of us, to the internet-that it was an open space for human creation. Underneath our current experience, there are still opportunities for creativity, autonomy, and human values. We can still create a web that serves the many and not just the few. Richard's book calls us to that-to reexamine and reimagine what we accepted as normal on the web, and to join forces in doing so."" - Mark Surman, President of Mozilla Foundation ""Reweaving the Web offers a deeply thoughtful framework for a future where technology enhances rather than erodes our humanity. Whitt's insights are profound and practical, making this book a must-read for anyone invested in the future of the internet and committed to implementing new tech and policy ideas to avoid recreating the problems of yesterday and to instead build a better digital tomorrow."" - Vilas S. Dhar, President and Trustee of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation ""In Reweaving the Web, Richard Whitt makes the invisible visible, challenging us to truly see the digital allowances we've unconsciously accepted. He flips the script, urging us to imagine a world where we, as ""clients,"" set the terms of engagement in our digital landscape, where vendors must play by the rules of our unique fine print. Whitt's book is a wake-up call, challenging the notion that our current digital regime is inevitable and shows us ways in which we could actively craft a more empowering digital future."" - Tui Shaub Cord, Omidyar Network ""Richard Whitt's unique, brilliantly developed innovations on human agency and trusted data fiduciaries in the digital world inspired me to go beyond advocating for privacy into investing in empowering humanity. This book is the bright guiding light for progress in a world of digital darkness. It is filled with rich, insightful analysis and practical, fair-minded solutions."" - Milton Pedraza, President of Luxury Institute and ethical tech investor ""As Richard's excellent book explains, if AI is going to be truly uplifting for humanity, then let's start with humans first. A personal AI that can make you a better you, provide you with a 10x improvement, and will in turn make you a more productive worker, a more efficient consumer, and a more engaged citizen. Let the benefits flow up, because they sure as hell have never trickled down."" - Reza Rassool, Chair and CEO, Kwaai.ai ""There is nobody better to challenge the predominant paradigm of the World Wide Web than Richard Whitt, one of the internet's earliest and deepest thought leaders. His decades of work on the increasingly complex digital world uniquely equip him to guide us through the AI paradigm shift, which brings both great risk and real opportunity to reclaim and promote our collective humanity."" - Maura Corbett, President of the Glen Echo Group