Tim Berners-Lee

A graphic of the cover of Tim Berners-Lee's news book with the wording 'The Instant Sunday Times bestseller'. The cover is a dark blue with a ring of rainbow pixels around Tim's name in the middle and the wording 'The Inventor of the World Wide Web'

The print edition of the Sunday Times Bestsellers list. This Is For Everyone by Sir Tim Berners-Lee is placed fourth.

Thank you to everyone reading my new memoir - you’ve made it an instant Sunday Times bestseller 🗞️

This Is for Everyone is available now from thisisforeveryone.timbl.com

@thetimes.com

Review | The inventor of the web says we can recapture its magic. Is he right? In “This Is for Everyone,” Tim Berners-Lee writes about the early days of the internet and how we might restore its more democratic roots.

“The free, open access communications paradigm we have did not arrive like magic. It was the product of a fair amount of political wrangling” - that's why we must continue our fight for the web.

🙏 @washingtonpost.com for reviewing 'This Is for Everyone'

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

Tim Berners-Lee: The internet needs compassion – and I have a solution We need to regulate the most addictive algorithms, writes Tim Berners-Lee

"The internet needs compassion - and I have a solution."

🙏 to @standard.co.uk.web.brid.gy for this extract from my new memoir 'This Is for Everyone' 📖

www.standard.co.uk/comment/inte...

Tim Berners-Lee on stage with Tania Bryer seated opposite one another. Tim's face is expressive with his hands up in the air.

Tim Berners-Lee on stage with Tania Bryer seated opposite one another. You see Tania's face smiling at Tim who is holding one hand up.

On Tuesday I launched my memoir 'This Is for Everyone' at
@cadoganhall.bsky.social

Available now @ thisisforeveryone.timbl.com & bookshops everywhere.

Special thanks to
Tania Bryer
@panmacmillan.bsky.social
@intelligence2.bsky.social

Nick Clegg and Tim Berners-Lee: the battle for the soul o... The ex-deputy PM toes the line of his former Meta paymasters, while the web's inventor shares his vision of a utopian digital future

Thank you to @observeruk.bsky.social for this thoughtful review.

“Berners-Lee is clear-eyed about the benefits and the dangers. This Is for Everyone contains some very sharp thinking about what we need to do now.”

We must fight for the web we want.

observer.co.uk/culture/book...

In 4 days my memoir 📕 'This Is for Everyone' will be published. The book tour kicks off the same day with many more events following.

Follow the journey on the book's Instagram -
instagram.com/sirtimberner...

Ooops preorder and tour link should be thisisforeveryone.timbl.com

Sir Tim Berners-Lee sat next to Stephen Fry holding the cover of Tim's new book THIS IS FOR EVERYONE

🙏 to the brilliant and magnificent @stephenfry.bsky.social for giving his time to record my audiobook THIS IS FOR EVERYONE 🌐

Pre-order and book tour dates @ www.timbl.com/thisisforeve...

www.thebookseller.com/news/stephen...

Tour dates for my book ‘This is for Everyone’ released today. Join me in London Sept 9th, Oxford Sept 10th or Edinburgh Sept 13th.

More on US dates and the rest of the 🌍 soon.
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🙏 @intelligence2.bsky.social @blackwells.bsky.social @portybooks.bsky.social

linktr.ee/thisisforeve...

From scribbled notes to a global revolution-the personal journey behind the Web’s invention and the unexpected turns along the way. It's both a history and my vision.

This is for Everyone isn’t just a story about technology; it’s about possibility

September 9th, pre-order linktr.ee/thisisforeve...

Join the Solid movement to play a part in building a better Web and global data infrastructure.

Apply for a role on the Solid Advisory Committee below ⬇️

Charlie is the evolution of agentic AI. It's built on top of a re-wired data infrastructure using solidproject.org to give people the security and trust they need to share their data.

With dramatically more personalised results, Charlie will empower users with their own data.

Let’s knock down social media’s walled gardens I envisioned the web as a place for the shared benefit of all — by reclaiming our data we can make that happen

In 2017 I wrote about Charlie - an AI that works for you. @inrupt.bsky.social labs now has Charlie working.

Thanks to the FT for my op-ed online today ⬇️
www.ft.com/content/79d2...

Past as Prologue: Charting the Next Frontier of the Internet At this inflection point in the internet's evolution, we face a critical choice between increasing centralization and the web's original democratic promise.…

Hello Bluesky! We’re excited to share a video from Future House (our collaboration with Human Change at #Davos2025) of the session Past as Prologue: Charting the Next Frontier of the Internet featuring Lady Rosemary Leith, Frank McCourt, and Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

Solid World is for the first time being hosted by @odihq.bsky.social on Monday 24th - join to learn, and be a part of, the Solid Community 🟣

🟣 Join the discussion on Mastodon - w3c.social/@timbl/11392...

7/7 Also heard from other pro-human tech like Polis from @audreyt.org and from Tristan Harris @humanetech.bsky.social at Project Liberty's Future House stage

6/7 Given rapid advancements in AI, it's critical we build on top of good systems. Thank you @mitofficial.bsky.social Dome (one of Davos's coolest stages) for hosting @inrupt.bsky.social to talk about Charlie, an AI that works for you, built on top of the Solid Protocol

www.w3.org/DesignIssues...

5/7 Solidproject.org is part of that good ecosystem - thank you to NLNet, funding Solid Protocol apps that are pro-human and to the @odihq.bsky.social which is coordinating to build new apps and data Pod spaces for science and democracy #solidprotocol

4/7 We need to *build* on the good with *new* better collaborative apps where social apps are interoperable through standards.

www.w3.org/DesignIssues...

3/7 We should also recognise that a lot of the things on the internet are good. The map in my Design Issues note shows the good there is online ⬇️

www.w3.org/DesignIssues...

2/7 Feed manipulation is using addictive algorithms in social media. Embedding addictiveness to these algorithms should be banned ⬇️

www.w3.org/DesignIssues...

Davos 2025: Special address by Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez Spain PM Pedro Sánchez tells Davos that social media is a 'common resource for humanity' that should be 'protected and managed accordingly' for democracy.

1/7 Last week @weforum.org um.org, @pedro-sanchez-archivo.braxuss.eu gave a vital speech about social media - urging leaders to tackle #onlineharms head on ⬇️

www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

Put these 2 together and it’s clear our governments are totally failing us.

1️⃣ 1,700+ fossil fuel lobbyists at the COP29 climate talks.

2️⃣ UN says the fossil fuel industry is running “a massive mis- and disinformation campaign” to delay the transition to clean energy.

Links in reply

#TheWeekinData: ODI and Solid come together
* ODI and Solid come together to give individuals greater control over personal data
* Google going nuclear
* Dodo comes back to life
theodi-748510.hs-sites.com/odi-and-soli...

📢 solidproject.org will have a new organisational home @odihq.bsky.social - pairing policy expertise with pro-human technology to build a global data infrastructure that encourages collaboration, stimulates creativity and fosters compassion - my original hope for the web.

After 15 years of work with Rosemary Leith to make the web more accessible, affordable and a trusted space for all we wind down the Web Foundation to focus on building pro-human systems that respect and empower individuals.
Huge thank you to all involved. webfoundation.org

timbl (@timbl@w3c.social) 3 Posts, 24 Following, 26 Followers ·

Thanks for the feedback. "Tim Berners-Lee, appears not to use fediverse products — ... but neglected to mention either the fediverse or ActivityPub " Both should be fixed. The article www.w3.org/DesignIssues... now mentions AP and Fediverse, and I'm on AP at w3c.social/@timbl

The dysfunction of social networks is a problem we must tackle
www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Dysfunction.html

but remember there are lots of great things on the internet too! www.w3.org/DesignIssues...

Don’t throw away your [kids] phone. Use the good things. #webwewant

Fundamental issues - including shortage of high-quality data - threaten the AI boom Significant weaknesses in the UK’s tech infrastructure threaten the predicted potential gains from AI.

From securing personal data with #SolidPods to leveraging #SmartData for innovation, the ODI's white paper shows why data infrastructure and governance are the bedrock of AI.

theodi.org/news-and-eve...