Manifesto

The web is governed by a select few that hold a monopoly over web data.

Those who wish to scrape and let no one else scrape, those who wish to collect and let no one else collect, and those who wish to monetize and let no one else monetize.

Since the dawn of history, access to information and the ability to share it have been the very core engine powering human development. With today's advancements and the internet, one would assume this access to information is easier than ever, but the reality is ugly and the status quo would bring crisis to the spirits of our ancestors who worked tirelessly to get us to where we are.

When our ancestors invented writing more than 5,000 years ago, they did so with the hope that they would create a system that makes it easier to share and preserve knowledge for generations.

This invention has been the most powerful driver of human innovation. The human species has seen more progress in the past 5,000 years than it has since the first homo sapiens came to existence more than 200,000 years ago.

As our hunger for knowledge and the ability to share it grew, so did our capacity to do it at scale.

This first big leap forward was the invention of the printing press, which fueled the industrial revolution. It spawned our ability to create logical machines, from the mechanical calculator to electronic circuits and silicon transistors.

Vastly different technologies with the same core concept of being able to process and store information, these machines are mere extensions of man, his desires, his fears and his undying appetite for more information and for better ways to share it.

The culmination of all our desires to preserve and share information has been the internet.

With everything that humanity has been able to do, one would assume that access to information is easier today than ever before. While that's perfectly true, there's a critical caveat, which is that the information that we are allowed access is steered by companies that act as if they own it.

These companies have taken it upon themselves to restrict our access to the open web and to preserve it for themselves with the intention of protecting their position. They know better than anybody else the power of information, especially when you put information and machine together to create human-like intelligence.

We are at the dawn of a new age. An age where machine has uninterrupted access to information that will unlock a new generation of technology.

Our mission is clear, to create the next typewriter, printing machine, and writing system that democratizes access to the web and turns it into an open book that anyone can read.

We will take away the power from those that wish to maintain their monopoly on information. So what will it be? It's a programmable layer turning the web into accurate, usable streams of data, open and accessible by everyone.

Why? Because the human will to advance trumps all. So we are here to do whatever it takes to open the web to man and machine alike.

But where does a company like Proxidize come into play with all this?

Access. The need for humanity to access mass information and process it at a level never seen before.