HBO Might Have Accurately Envisioned the Future of the Internet

And it may be closer than you think

In Season 5 of Silicon Valley, which wrapped up May 13, Richard Hendricks, CEO of fictional startup Pied Piper, and his plucky band of misfits worked tirelessly to bring their new kind of internet, PiperNet, to market.

But while the product itself isn’t real—Pied Piper’s website looks real enough—there are a number of players actually trying to make this fictional internet, one that is decentralized so users don’t have to rely on intermediaries like Google or Facebook, a reality.

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