Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It | The New Yorker
Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It | The New Yorker
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Section titled “Metadata”- Author: Julian Lucas
- Full Title: Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It | The New Yorker
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- URL: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/tim-berners-lee-invented-the-world-wide-web-now-he-wants-to-save-it
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Section titled “Highlights”- The commendable aim was to mainstream the principle of user control over data. Still, it was hard not to feel that Berners-Lee’s ambitions had narrowed. “We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine,” he once wrote of the web. But, at this critical juncture, the unimaginable thing he’d chosen to build was a chatbot that helps you pick sneakers.