Tim Berners – Lee’s new technology privacy control for web
Tim Berners-Lee is moving towards newer technologies to create a web with more privacy and less government to control around 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 Berners-Lee is happy with all the consequences.
On Tuesday, Berners-Lee and other top computer scientists—including Brewster Kahle, head of the non-profit Internet Archive and an internet activist—gathered in San Francisco to discuss a new phase for the web. Tuesday itself , Berners-Lee and Kahle and others gathered at the event, called the Decentralized Web Summit, over new ways that web pages could be distributed broadly without the standard control of a web server computer, as well as ways of storing scientific data without having to pay storage fees to companies like Amazon, Dropbox or Google.
The web is already decentralized, Berners-Lee said. “The problem is the dominance of one search engine, one big social network, one Twitter for microblogging. We don’t have a technology problem, we have a social problem and that can perhaps, be solved by more technology.”
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