The New Yorker

Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It

Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.
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Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, thinks it can still be saved — despite some parts being 'optimized for nastiness'

When Sir Tim Berners-Lee first came up with the idea for the World Wide Web back in 1989, his vision for it could be likened to a digital Library of Alexandria, with all human knowledge centralized, a ...
The Harvard Crimson

At Harvard Talk, World Wide Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Says Today’s Internet Exploits Users for Data

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor the World Wide Web, criticized the state of the internet today for turning users into “consumable products” in a talk in Harvard Square on Wednesday evening about his ...
Observer

Tim Berners-Lee Warns A.I. Could Kill the Web Economy as No One Visits Sites Anymore

Berners-Lee cautioned that generative A.I. threatens the foundation of today’s web economy. SXSW Conference & Festivals via We have Tim Berners-Lee to thank for the World Wide Web. But these days, the ...
The Washington Post

The inventor of the web says we can recapture its magic. Is he right?

Of late, I have found myself gravitating toward science fiction franchises that imagine not advanced technology or seamlessly integrated AI, but something even more improbable and futuristic: a world ...
Nextgov

The man who built the web wants to fix it

Addictive algorithms are a design choice, according to Tim Berners-Lee. Decades after inventing the web, Tim Berners-Lee is still defending it. This time, he's not talking about browsers or bandwidth ...