Why Tim Berners-Lee Wants to Rethink the Internet | Emma Barnett Meets

Emma Barnett meets the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, to discuss his hopes for shifting control of data, the role tech companies and lawmakers should play in tackling online hate, and his experience taking part in the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. Interview recorded on May 4, 2022.
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[@sixman9]

I'm listening to this, on my mobile, from a drive through car park, while 'working from home', 100 miles from my employer. Thank you, Sir Tim 🙏🏾

[@thomasgaudette7367]

For me, the biggest problem with the web today is that every search assumes that I am trying to buy something. There needs to be a way to search non commercially aligned information only.

[@deadpanfish]

No. Its that companies that are trying to sell something are better at getting seen in results.

[@yubtubtime]

@@deadpanfish That’s beyond uninformed

[@wisdomn]

I love how he talks. It's obvious that there is a lot going on in his mind and the fact that everything is clear to him and he can very quickly communicate it is awesome.

[@sylvietaillefer775]

Pour moi ,c'est le Diable en personne ce type👹👹👹

[@kxmode]

Without Mr. Berners-Lee's creation, I wouldn't have a job. I discovered the World Wide Web in 1994 via Windows 3.11 through a piece of technology called Trumpet Winsock that I had to figure out how to install. Once installed, it allowed me to use my first web browser, Mosaic. I made my first webpage in about two months of learning HTML 1.0. Then, I spent about 6-8 months learning Photoshop 2.0 and created my first web page with graphics about a year later. I landed my first professional web job in 1998 and worked on the Saturn corporate website in 2000. The rest is history. I am forever grateful to Tim. 🙂

[@7373robin]

I do wonder if we should be grateful for inventing the amazing gift or criticizing him for inventing the most dangerous weapon ever invented?

[@bulgariantimes]

Thank you, SIr Tim Berners-Lee! Thank you billion times...

[@mayflowerlash11]

At about 21 minutes Tim Berners Lee was expressing his view about how an AI that worked for you would be a liberating idea. But you had to segue back a point you had already covered. Namely the opening ceremony of the London olympic games. That had already been covered. I was much more interested in Berners-Lee's ideas of the future of AI. What made you think your viewer would be more interested in your reminiscence of your moment rather than Tim's ideas? Rather than impose your agenda on the interview consider what you might learn when you have a brilliant thinker in conversation.

[@cokoala5137]

Genuinely thinking the same thing. How does that stack up?

[@danield1705]

I think it's just poor editing, the first instance of stadium ref was in the intro/teaser of the interview, before the interview really starts, and the second was the real bits. So it looks like the first is already in the interview..

[@harleystatum6060]

@@danield1705 Right, I think it was just that the opening clips didn't have anything to separate them from the actual recording. Very confusing.

[@rafaelmayrink9691]

I had exactly the same thought! I was expecting an amazing answer and then: "let's interrupt him in order to follow an agenda". That's a kind of an interview whose interviewer is worried about herself and the TV show rather than the audience.

[@LM-rn6ph]

Exactly, her questions were stale.

[@Nicolas-uu3jr]

thank you sir 🙂

[@malikdanish1175]

Such a humble human being keep it up stay blessed

[@JRinPV]

He went to my school a couple of years after I. An Old Emanuel.

[@spottedcow1]

All best are OEs!😊

[@namenl2205]

Advocating for accessibiliy to internet for people outside the privileged west, is showing true character. Legend.

[@brianmmudenda6870]

A LEGEND HE IS AND FOREVER SHALL BE.

[@RBASB10]

Extremely smart human being.

[@bulgariantimes]

Literally the Greatest man of our time!

[@ConanXin]

艾玛·巴尼特（Emma Barnett）采访了万维网的发明者蒂姆·伯纳斯·李（Tim Berners-Lee），讨论他对转移数据控制权的希望、科技公司和立法者在解决网络仇恨方面应发挥的作用，以及他参加2012年伦敦奥运会开幕式的经历。采访录制于2022年5月4日。

[@christopherroberson5566]

Great Man.

[@savoircustomersupportllc]

Surely more than half the world is a modest understatement

[@faisalsheikh7846]

Awesome interview

[@diceflawless9115]

He's probably the most important person in the history of man and we barley know him

[@lanakrav8629]

Timothy Berner-Lee as perpetuum mobile. Endless flight of mind. ( And hands and face also. :))

[@falconeagle3655]

Great Interview

[@boukm3n]

*Tim is the man!!! Love this dude*

[@sylvietaillefer775]

Je le déteste c'est le mal absolu,perte d'emploi dans les services publics, plus de robots dans les usines,moins de boutiques avec des petits commerçants sympas, aujourd'hui que des entrepôts,qui poussent comme des champignons, plus de camions de livraisons qui polluent à tout va,que du virtuel moins de dialogue physique obliger,d'avoir des abonnements opérateur, d'avoir du matériels informatique, et de payer payer....Pour rentré dans l'enclos de moutons 🐑 🐑 🐑 🐑

[@eant1234]

Legend

[@TheMVJunior]

For me, he doesn't know where he wants to go yet.

[@special-t-419onurbandictio9]

How long does it take to police the Web if its in society? Like yeh China and some countries are doing it to the extreme but it needs to be policed half the net is trash if not more it's basically a walking billboard with no ristrictions.

[@internetphia]

16:16

[@willdominatetheunviersein123]

TIM!

[@svdubl]

Jeez give the fellow opportunity to finish his sentences without constantly interrupting him 🤦‍♂️

[@victorialondero]

Quisiera entender que condicion tiene, porque empieza hablando totalmente normal y desp se descoloca con ticks , moviendo la cabeza y se traba, como si fuera un robot que se le recalentaron los cables, que onda ?

[@matthewgraybosch8569]

People need to be able to self-host their own websites using tools a reasonably intelligent seven-year-old can figure out without having to become system administrators or programmers. These tools don't exist yet, and even if they did ISPs in the US do everything they can to make self-hosting on residential connections all but impossible for anybody but the most determined. Solid isn't going to fix any of that.

[@deadpanfish]

Why

[@hongaslahoenvaara]

The principal question is not only in owning data, but in controlling the production process, and eventually be able to own and control robots that assembles the instances of themselves consuming only simple resources. Cancel the logic of capital growing with all the bad consequences like crisis and wars.

[@hellosky143]

Such a humble human being …. Most modern digital services use the web in some fashion so imagine if he wanted to monetise on his invention?

[@raresmircea]

Human civilisation is built on the shoulders of very “weak” people: Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, Turing, Shannon, Einstein, Chomsky, Salk, etc - statistically having few offspring, no drive for leadership and almost no economic interest. The kind of “fit/strong” individuals that we’re so mistakingly identifying in our culture, only exploited and managed to get ahead of the pack without making any real contribution to art, knowledge and technology - if anything, they greatly delayed their development.

[@toddmaek5436]

The interviewer over talks the INVENTOR OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB a bit too much.

[@I_Was_Chrispy_Kreme]

14:25 it sounds like solid is just a supercharged way for advertisers to track you across services through your solid ID. No thanks

[@voiceofexperience]

Is that you, Titania McGrath?

[@tensevo]

pipe down bigot

[@jgbailar]

What's with the vanity shots, makeup scenes of the interviewer, and the dramatic intro music? The whole setup of this interview feels like a 90s talk-show spoof. Or am I missing something? Not used to so much tackiness from Bloomberg.

[@hewhohasnoidentity4377]

I think they were trying to minimize the focus from his health condition but the result does the opposite. He also is more animated than most interview subjects. That makes it hard to keep a standard angle. It's not award winning, but I wouldn't fire anyone over this. I also know nothing about the job so my opinion doesn't matter.

[@Bhatakti_Hawas]

Thats a solid way of tracking me. No thanks

[@thinkofwhy]

It's called the web for a reason. It's for the spiders, not the people.

[@RickyAvelino]

1st 👍

[@endoscopisis]

you have TBL in front of you and out of all the questions you could ask to a living legend you ask him about "his feelings"... ok

[@TrevK0]

fight for the "correct information" as always the elites like this interviewer don't actually like for the people to think for themselves

[@voiceofexperience]

🎯

[@hansolowe19]

I don't see a mention of parkinson's disease on his wikipedia page. I do hope he is getting treatment. All the best, Tim. 😊😘🫡