(2018-10-05) Paull The Internet Archive Is Sucking Up All The Good Tech People

Sylvia Paull: The Internet Archive Is Sucking Up All the Good Tech People. More than a thousand people came to celebrate founder Brewster Kahle’s vision of a decentralized web and I was surprised that so many of my tech friends — all brilliant and selfless champions of the archive’s goals — now work at the Internet Archive

Mark Graham, director of the Wayback Machine, was previously a senior VP with NBC News

The Internet Archive is expanding its reach to millions of school children with a library project that will deliver tens of thousands of books to young readers. It’s ironic that Kahle was able to start the archive and now is investing in this book campaign by selling his previous company, Alexa, to Amazon, a purveyor of books that are not free.

Also ironic, or perhaps inevitable, is that by preserving the past, the Internet Archive is also architecting a new way to share knowledge in the future. It’s called the decentralized web and will eventually insure all the qualities Kahle and those who participated in the archive’s celebration originally hoped the Internet would offer.