{"id":841,"date":"2021-03-15T08:54:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T07:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/15\/tim-berners-lee-we-need-social-networks-where-bad-things-happen-less\/"},"modified":"2021-03-15T08:54:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T07:54:53","slug":"tim-berners-lee-we-need-social-networks-where-bad-things-happen-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/15\/tim-berners-lee-we-need-social-networks-where-bad-things-happen-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Berners-Lee: \u2018We need social networks where bad things happen less\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The father of the world wide web talks about its first 30 years, the rise of the toxic internet \u2013 and whether Facebook needs to be broken up<\/p>\n

Zoom being Zoom, Tim Berners-Lee\u2019s name appears in my browser window about 20 seconds before his audio and video feed kick in \u2013 and for a brief moment, the prospect of talking online to the inventor of the world wide web seems so full of symbolism and significance that it threatens to take my breath away.<\/p>\n

During the hour we spend talking, that thought never fully recedes \u2013 but the reality is inevitably rather more prosaic: a 65-year-old man in a slightly crumpled, light blue polo shirt, talking \u2013 usually at high speed \u2013 from his home a dozen or so miles from Oxford, at a desk positioned just next to a fancy-looking model house (\u201cI think that\u2019s a mansard roof<\/a>,\u201d he says). For all that he is one of a tiny group of people who can claim to have fundamentally changed how most of us live \u2013 which explains why he had a role in Danny Boyle\u2019s opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics \u2013 he carries himself with a striking lack of star power. He could probably walk down the average high street unrecognised; as if to underline that the human race may now have its priorities slightly wrong, at 345,000, his Twitter followers<\/a> number less than 5% of Piers Morgan\u2019s.<\/p>\n

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\nThe father of the world wide web talks about its first 30 years, the rise of the toxic internet \u2013 and whether Facebook needs to be broken up
\nZoom being Zoom, Tim Berners-Lee\u2019s name appears in my browser window about 20 seconds before his audio and video feed kick in \u2013 and for a brief moment, the prospect of talking online to the inventor of the world wide web seems so full of symbolism and significance that it threatens to take my breath away.
\nDuring the hour we spend talking, that thought never fully recedes \u2013 but the reality is inevitably rather more prosaic: a 65-year-old man in a slightly crumpled, light blue polo shirt, talking \u2013 usually at high speed \u2013 from his home a dozen or so miles from Oxford, at a desk positioned just next to a fancy-looking model house (\u201cI think that\u2019s a mansard roof,\u201d he says). For all that he is one of a tiny group of people who can claim to have fundamentally changed how most of us live \u2013 which explains why he had a role in Danny Boyle\u2019s opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics \u2013 he carries himself with a striking lack of star power. He could probably walk down the average high street unrecognised; as if to underline that the human race may now have its priorities slightly wrong, at 345,000, his Twitter followers number less than 5% of Piers Morgan\u2019s. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The father of the world wide web talks about its first 30 years, the rise of the toxic internet \u2013 and whether Facebook needs to be broken up Zoom being Zoom, Tim Berners-Lee\u2019s name appears in my browser window about 20 seconds before his audio and video feed kick in \u2013 and for a brief …<\/p>\n

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