Tim Berners-Lee — I Modest Stride For The Web…

Tim Berners-Lee - modern hero. The guy who actually invented the Internet too is instantly engaged inwards re-inventing it too thence that it becomes to a greater extent than similar the tool he envisioned but got hijacked on the way.

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One Small Step for the Web… *

Tim Berners-Lee | Founder too Director of W3C, the Web Foundation too the Open Data Institute, too instantly Solid too inrupt.

* Reference to Neil Armstrong, "That's 1 minor pace for man, 1 giant boundary for mankind," equally he took the origin pace past times a human onto the surface of the moon.

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This week, Berners-Lee volition launch Inrupt, a startup that he has been building, inwards stealth mode, for the past times ix months. Backed past times Glasswing Ventures, its mission is to turbocharge a broader crusade afoot, amid developers but about the world, to decentralize the spider web too cause got dorsum ability from the forces that cause got profited from centralizing it. In other words, it’s game on for Facebook, Google, Amazon. For years now, Berners-Lee too other network activists cause got been dreaming of a digital utopia where individuals command their ain information too the network remains gratis too open. But for Berners-Lee, the fourth dimension for dreaming is over.

“We cause got to create it now,” he says, displaying an intensity too urgency that is uncharacteristic for this soft-spoken academic. “It’s a historical moment.” Ever since revelations emerged that Facebook had allowed people’s information to live on misused past times political operatives, Berners-Lee has felt an imperative to larn this digital idyll into the existent world. In a post published this weekend, Berners-Lee explains that he is taking a sabbatical from MIT to run total fourth dimension on Inrupt. The companionship volition live on the origin major commercial venture built off of Solid, a decentralized spider web platform he too others at MIT cause got spent years building....

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