Father of World Wide Web seeks to unravel monopoly Internet control of corporate tech giants Google and Facebook.
With an ambitious decentralized platform, the father of the web hopes it’s game on for corporate tech giants like Facebook and Google.
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Last week, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, asked me to come and see a project he has been working on almost as long as the web itself. It’s a crisp autumn day in Boston, where Berners-Lee works out of an office above a boxing gym. After politely offering me a cup of coffee, he leads us into a sparse conference room. At one end of a long table is a battered laptop covered with stickers. Here, on this computer, he is working on a plan to radically alter how all of us live and work on the web.
The Most Revolutionary Act 
How about giving the U. S. Post Office a position in this? Internet mail.
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That’s a great idea, marblenecltr. What a brilliant suggestion.
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It is the idea of a candidate for senator of Massachusetts in the next election. He is of Asian Indian ancestry. Free market capitalism, as good as it may seem, is run by human beings (for now), so it must have wisely written and well enforced rules for playing that game. Proper application of the First Amendment and much legislation followed would help greatly, and more good legislation would help more.
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Berners-Lee is one of my all-time favorite people!
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Same here, Alan. I really admire his passion for making the Internet free and accessible to everyone regardless of income level.
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