Berners-Lee says World Wide Web, at 30, must emerge from 'adolescence'.
GENEVA - The fraying World Wide Web needs to rediscover its strengths and grow into maturity, its designer Tim Berners-Lee said on Monday, marking the 30th anniversary of the collaborative software project his supervisor initially dubbed"vague but exciting".
"They are all stepping back, suddenly horrified after the Trump and Brexit elections, realizing that this web thing that they thought was that cool is actually not necessarily serving humanity very well," he said. People who had grown up taking the internet's neutrality for granted now found that the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump had"rolled that back".
In an open letter to mark the anniversary, Berners-Lee said many people now felt unsure about whether the web was a force for good, but it would be defeatist and unimaginative to assume that it could not change for the better in the next 30 years.
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