A plan to redesign the internet could make apps that no one controls. A utopian vision: In 1996, John Perry Barlow, co-founder of internet rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wrote “A declaration of the independence of cyberspace”, a broad vision of a free and open internet controlled by its users. That vision now feels naïve, with today’s internet rules by the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu. But a not-for-profit in Switzerland called Dfinity wants to revive it. 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?

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