All Models Are Wrong

Brewster Kahle started planning the Internet Archive (creators of the Wayback Machine) in 1980 at the MIT AI lab, when he figured that machines worth talking to would need a library to learn from. Forty-six years later, he says the biggest obstacle to that future is a handful of companies that want to control information instead of selling it.

We recorded this conversation live at DWeb Camp 2026 outside Berlin. We talk about where the early web went wrong and what Europe's copyright carve-out could mean for public AI. Brewster also argues that small-scale capitalism belongs on the list of civilizational infrastructure, and tells the story of the credit union he tried to start after the 2008 crisis.

Brewster Kahle is the founder of the Internet Archive and a longtime advocate for the decentralized web.

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0:00 Intro
1:55 The early days of the internet and what they got wrong
11:56 Big Tech vs Big Publishing
15:01 The original vision of The Internet Archive
21:01 What civilizational infrastructure should we be building?
26:03 Internet Archive Credit Union vs Big Banks

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As some of you may have seen, the blog and podcast I ran for 7 years ended but the rebirth is here. 

The short description for All Models Are Wrong is:

“Technology is never just technology. All Models Are Wrong examines who controls and benefits from these systems and how they might be organized differently.”

My thesis is that the continued development and introduction of “frontier technologies” will (as it has already) bisect traditional political camps in ways that will surprise us. The models that we’ve grown up with to make sense of the world have increasingly failed us and do not reflect our current reality. 
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I spoke to Yanis Varoufakis, economist and former Greek finance minister, at Web3 Summit in Berlin on June 18th, 2026, about why he thinks blockchain is one of the few tools left that can actually pull power away from Big Tech and the banks. Truly a privilege that I had the chance to speak with him on such a stage.
We dig into his concept of techno-feudalism and cloud capital, his monetary commons proposal for a transparent monetary system that could undercut private banks, and the digital wallet system he tried to build for Greece during the crisis. Yanis also lays out why he thinks the digital euro is dead in the water.
 You can read my reflections on the interview here. 
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I spoke to Leo Fan, founder of Cysic, about what zero-knowledge proofs actually are, and why they might be one of the more promising answers to the internet's identity problem.

We dig into how a ZK proof lets you prove something is true without handing over any identifying personal information, why that matters as digital identity systems become pushed by governments, and Cysic's model for verifiable compute. Leo also breaks down why the hardware and cost problems around ZK have kept it from mainstream identity use so far, and how Cysic's network lets you use your own hardware to help generate these proofs, rather than leaving that compute in the hands of a few large players.
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