--- title: How to Fix the Broken Internet description: Here's how to fix the broken internet, here’s what other new presidents have learned from their CIA briefings and more. canonical: https://time.com/4603370/how-to-fix-the-broken-internet/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-12-15T17:00:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:59:14.022Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How To Fix The Broken Internet og:description: Here are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4603370/how-to-fix-the-broken-internet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How To Fix The Broken Internet twitter:description: Here are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How to Fix the Broken Internet by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 15, 2016 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 15, 2016 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**The internet is broken. Starting from scratch, here’s how I’d fix it.**](https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/internet-broken-starting-from-scratch-heres-how-id-fix-isaacson) By Walter Isaacson in LinkedIn **2\.** [**Here’s what other new presidents have learned from their CIA briefings.**](http://www.reuters.com/article/us-weiner-cia-commentary-idUSKBN14407T) By Tim Weiner at Reuters **3\.** [**To protect journalism, make cameras that encrypt their photos.**](http://www.zdnet.com/article/photojournalists-and-filmmakers-call-on-camera-makers-to-include-encryption/) By Zack Whittaker in ZDNet **4\.** [**We need to get the sexism out of retail investing.**](http://www.racked.com/2016/12/14/13871472/sexism-retail-investing) By Haniya Rae in Racked **5\.** [**Robots can already talk like us. Non-verbal communication will make them truly lifelike.**](http://www.theverge.com/2016/12/7/13857144/social-vr-carnegie-mellon-panoptic-studio-facebook-oculus-toybox) By Ben Popper in the Verge  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4603370/how-to-fix-the-broken-internet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4603370/how-to-fix-the-broken-internet/"},"headline":"How to Fix the Broken Internet","datePublished":"2016-12-15T17:00:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:14.022Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4603370/how-to-fix-the-broken-internet/","keywords":["Innovation","Internet","robots","Journalism","Presidents","Investing"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4603370/how-to-fix-the-broken-internet/","name":"How to Fix the Broken Internet"}}]}] ```