# Decentralization is key for future society

- **Speaker:** Unknown
- **Attribution:** uncertain
- **Said:** 2018-04-23
- **Theme:** Cloud Decentralization — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/
- **Source:** Panel: Decentralized Storage (Block 2thefuture)
- **Watch at:** 00:04:25 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTHa7tr277g&t=265s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/cloud-decentralization/2018-04-23-decentralization-is-key-for-future-society-sfem/
- **Cite as:** Unknown, "Decentralization is key for future society," Panel: Decentralized Storage (Block 2thefuture), 23 Apr 2018, 00:04:25. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTHa7tr277g&t=265s

## Quote — verbatim

> Well, security and ownership — we all know what happens when your data \[is\] centralized, with Facebook there's no auditability, there's nothing going on but your data. So I think decentralization is key here for future society.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answer to why decentralizing storage matters, weeks after the Cambridge Analytica story broke. **Speaker:** possibly not Greg — captions are not diarized and several panelists answered in sequence.