Biography Flash: Tim Berners-Lee - Rebuilding the Web, Rethinking AI, and Reclaiming Privacy
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Biography Flash: Tim Berners-Lee - Rebuilding the Web, Rethinking AI, and Reclaiming Privacy
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been making waves this week with a major public appearance and renewed attention to his latest project aimed at revolutionizing the internet once again. On Thursday evening, October 9th, Berners-Lee appeared alongside Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco for a conversation titled "Building and Preserving the Web." The event, which kicked off at 7:30 PM Pacific Time, focused on the rise of the internet, its explosive impact on society, and developing issues in the growth and use of the web.
The Guardian published an excerpt from Berners-Lee's new memoir "This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web," which has been generating significant buzz in tech circles. In the book and recent interviews, the web's inventor doesn't mince words about his concerns, telling the BBC that when it comes to artificial intelligence, "If it's smarter than you, then we have to keep it contained. We have to be able to switch it off."
Daily Kos ran a detailed feature on Berners-Lee's Solid project, short for Social Linked Data, describing it as his "quiet attempt to rebuild the internet as he first intended: a decentralized commons where users, not corporations or governments, hold the keys to their digital selves." The piece painted a vivid picture of Berners-Lee standing in front of a whiteboard in Oxford, now gray-haired but still restless, sketching out his vision for personal online data stores called Pods that would return control of digital information to individual users rather than tech platforms.
Meanwhile, the Internet Archive announced that Berners-Lee will receive the 2025 Internet Archive Hero Award, a fitting recognition as the organization celebrates archiving one trillion web pages. IOL Entertainment published a review on October 12th discussing how reading his memoir prompts reflection on power, privacy, and digital dilemmas in our current age.
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