Tim Berners-Lee

(2/2) What I did know was that it was to be guided by the overarching values of fuelling creativity, driving collaboration and igniting compassion. These values are even more important in the age of AI, a technology that has the same potential to liberate and cause harm #Web37

(1/2) 37 years ago today I submitted my proposal for the World Wide Web 🎂. Today, Rosemary & I spoke with students in New Orleans at Walter Isaacson's Digital History Class @tulaneu.bsky.social. I was asked, as I often am, if I ever could have foreseen where we’d be today. I could not.

‘It’s not too late to fix it’: web inventor Tim Berners-Lee says he is in a ‘battle for the soul’ of the internet Founder of the world wide web says commercialisation means the net has been ‘optimised for nastiness’, but collaboration and compassion can prevail

Tonight marks the final stop on the Australian book tour @sydneyoperahouse.bsky.social 🌏

🙏 to everyone joining the conversation and movement to reclaim the web for everyone. See you tonight Sydney 🇦🇺

#thisisforeveryone

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Best books of 2025: Environment, Science and Technology Pilita Clark, Clive Cookson and John Thornhill select their must-read titles

🙏 @financialtimes.com & @johnthornhill.bsky.social for making 'This Is For Everyone' a Financial Times Best books of the year 📘

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A special evening being interviewed by my old friend Juan Enriquez in Boston @brattletheatre.bsky.social... and no, that's not Juan in the photo 👀 but Rosemary Leith who could do the interview with ease after sitting through every book tour event 🙏

Started this week @92ndstreety.bsky.social in conversation with @camillefrancois.bsky.social . 🙏 to everyone for making it a full house.

A packed Keplers in Menlo Park, an amazing audience and a stage shared with @thomaslfriedman.bsky.social made for a great atmosphere last night. Huge thanks to Tom for the questions covering the web's history, it's future and everything in between 🌐

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'

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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' 📖

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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.

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

🙏 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...

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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

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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 ⬇️
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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

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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...