Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC World Service. My name's Ed Butler, and today I'm in the American Rocky Mountains at the Future in Review Conference. I'm asking, how safe are we online?

We've created this crazy system where every time you use it, you leave data about yourself and what your activities are

for anybody else to harvest.

Yes, we're looking at the very architecture of the internet today.

Is it fit for purpose in an age where increasingly machines are orchestrating political debate?

I did a quick search this morning and found one tweet by Trump that was promoted by 60% bots.

60% of the people retweeting what Donald Trump said were machines.

Yes.

The Internet Age and How to Survive It, Business Daily from the BBC.

The Future in Review Conference here in Park City, Utah, gathers all kinds of expertise, medical, environmental, people working in national debates.

You can hear them chattering around me. But the connecting glue for all this future-facing wisdom is first and foremost, tech. Now, I've been coming to this event for some years now, and what I've seen

among many of these experts is a growing debate and anxiety even about the way the internet is heading.

Scandals around data breaches are part of it, the data harvesting model on which big internet companies like Facebook and Google build themselves has added to the angst.

So I wonder, does the internet need a fundamental overhaul?

It is a huge question.

And it's one we're going to be addressing today.

But first, listen to these guys.

A couple of startup firms showcasing here at the conference

with simple street-level products that respond to the growing anxiety. My name is Denise Heyman Loa,

and I'm the CEO of Chari. Denise's firm offers a kind of adaptable, private platform for larger

companies or groups needing to communicate and collaborate

internally. It's a safe space from the outside world.

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