The Founder of World Wide Web Believes WWW Has Failed Humanity

World Wide Web (www), the prefix of every popular website and the backbone of a trillion dollar industry. It is also the home of controversies, mysteries, and the dark web.

Tim Berners-Lee has some significant regrets about his creation which span from fake news to mass surveillance. In an interview with Vanity Fair, he stated:

We demonstrated that the Web had failed instead of served humanity, as it was supposed to have done, and failed in many places. The increasing centralization of the Web has ended up producing—with no deliberate action of the people who designed the platform—a large-scale emergent phenomenon which is anti-human.

Tim predicts that more than 4 Billion people will be connected this November and they will share all sorts of information such as resumes to political interests and much much more. It ultimately makes the web more powerful than one can comprehend. Because ultimately everyone gave internet this power, by willingly signing user agreements, terms and conditions and so forth.

You can give the interview a read here, it is quite extensive and spans from the earliest days of the World Wide Web to its current condition.