British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee was speaking as the web turned 30. His work was memorialized in pixelated form by today’s Google Doodle.
The inventor of the World Wide Web has revealed his vision for the future, proclaiming that the fight for the technology is “one of the most important causes of our time.”
“[Web users] are all stepping back, suddenly horrified after the Trump and Brexit elections, realizing that this web thing that they thought was that cool is actually not necessarily serving humanity very well,” he said . On social media firms' impropriety, he added: “It seems we don’t finish reeling from one privacy disaster before moving onto the next one.”
The current iteration of the web has left some users unsure if it really is a force for good, Berners-Lee said in a blog post this week marking the anniversary. He acknowledged it had created “opportunity for scammers” and “made all kinds of crime easier to commit.” The Web Foundation, spearheaded by Berners-Lee, is currently working with governments and companies to create a new set of online principles: the Contract for the Web.
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