Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants to rescue his creation from centralization. But does he align himself with Web3’s promise of salvation?
At TNW Conference, the computer scientist gave a one-word answer:
“Nope.”
That snub may seem to clash with Berners-Lee’s recent actions. The 67-year-old now campaigns to save his “dysfunctional” brainchild from the clutches of Big Tech.
He’s also made a cool $5.4million by selling an NFT — one of Web3’s supposed pillars.
But the Brit has his own vision for the web’s successor: a decentralized architecture that gives users control of their data.
Berners-Lee want to build it on a platform he calls Solid — but you can call it Web 3.0.
“We did talk about it as Web 3.0 at one point, because Web 2.0 was a term used for the dysfunction of what happens with user-generated content on the large platforms,” he said.
“People have called that Web 2.0, so if you want to call this Web 3.0, then okay.”
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