Tim Berners-Lee and other computer scientists wants to restructure the internet from its current surveillance state

06/11/2016 - 03:46

Quentin Hardy


Twenty-seven years ago, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web as a way for scientists to easily find information. It has since become the world’s most powerful medium for knowledge, communications and commerce — but that doesn’t mean Mr. Berners-Lee is happy with all of the consequences.

“It controls what people see, creates mechanisms for how people interact,” he said of the modern day web.

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