David Byrne Talks About Breaking The Internet And Starting Over

David Byrne imagines what the internet would be like if we could start over again.

After the major nodes of the internet are taken out by detonating a “small timed radioactive paintball”, Byrne imagines a chance to reboot it.

Imagine this: in a new Internet, we’d still be able to send emails. Academic and nonprofit institutions would still share resources online. Wikipedia and web-based journalism would still exist. But if we can’t be tracked as we are now, a lot would change. Google would lose its primary sources of revenue—ads—and return to being a very good search engine, with a lot fewer employees. The NSA and the other data thieves and collectors would be helpless. No one would have data on countless innocent citizens that could be repurposed to God knows what ends. The Chinese couldn’t hack into the North American power grid.

A good start would be just getting rid of YouTube ads.

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