The Authenticity Decade | How Content Provenance Becomes Infrastructure

The Authenticity Decade: How Content Provenance Becomes the Internet's Next Layer of Public Infrastructure

By 2030, every meaningful piece of digital content will carry a verifiable signature attesting to its origin. The shift will be as profound as the move from HTTP to HTTPS, and it has already begun.

An essay on why the period 2026 to 2036 will become known as the Authenticity Decade, the structural parallel between HTTPS adoption and verified-origin adoption, the three-body institutional problem of internet trust, and five concrete predictions for how content provenance becomes routine internet infrastructure.

Read the full essay at https://theailab.org/insights/the-authenticity-decade