Sir Tim Berners-Lee assembled a team to tackle one of the gnarliest in the foundation of what used to be known simply as the World Wide Web. The Inrupt vision is that data can float independently around the web in bundles called pods. Any application could request access to the pod from anywhere, saving it from storing the data locally. This alone could save developers from the expense of the disk storage while reducing inconsistencies that can emerge when multiple copies of records aren’t kept in tight synchrony. Inrupt sees that opening up this protocol could also shift the political geography of the internet.”]