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A plan to redesign the internet could make apps that no one controls

10 mins | Aug 13, 2020
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Are internal computer protocols the way to the future? Dfinity wants to allow the creation of apps that can run on the network itself rather than on servers owned by Facebook, Google or Amazon. Can it succeed where others have failed? Will Douglas Heaven contemplates.

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