He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake the Digital World.
Three decades ago, Tim Berners-Lee devised simple yet powerful standards for locating, linking and presenting multimedia documents online. He set them free into the world, unleashing the World Wide Web.
Now Mr. Berners-Lee believes the online world has gone astray. Too much power and too much personal data, he says, reside with the tech giants like Google and Facebook — “silos” is the generic term he favors, instead of referring to the companies by name. Fueled by vast troves of data, he says, they have become surveillance platforms and gatekeepers of innovation.
But Mr. Berners-Lee is taking a different approach: His answer to the problem is technology that gives individuals more power.
Full article: He Created the Web. Now He’s Out to Remake the Digital World. – The New York Times
