Inventor of the Web there is more than 25 years, Tim Berners-Lee regrets the power that took on him the states and the big companies like Google or Facebook. He wants to push towards a more decentralized Web and safer for its users.
But what has the Internet done? This is the question regularly asked by pioneers of the Web, who dreamed of changing the world and who actually did, without always knowing whether it is for better or for worse. The Internet has brought its undeniable lot of improvements in social life, allowing citizens to learn more, to share knowledge and to get in touch with each other more easily. But it has also become an unprecedented means of monitoring the population, and a liberal machine that favors the biggest in an economy that is more than ever globalized. (...)
http://www.numerama.com/politique/17524 ... ernet.html
Tim Berners-Lee: We lose control of the Web, we must react
Faced with the excesses of surveillance, Tim Berners-Lee (father of the World Wide Web) wants to "re-decentralize" the Internet and joins a militant reconquest.
This is not quite the trajectory expected by the creators of the Web. But the perception of the Internet as the world's largest surveillance network becomes tangible for Tim Berners-Lee. (...)
http://www.itespresso.fr/tim-berners-le ... 31832.html
His wiki page: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee
I like this guy! I have the same vision as him of a free internet and without abuse ... but like him, I must be in the family of the soft dreamer ...