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At 35, the web is broken, but its inventor hasn't given up hope of fixing it yet


Back to the future: Sir Tim Berners-Lee thinks the rise of AI has made things worse than ever, but he continues to find solutions in the internet's earliest days.

Today, both the internet and the stock market are dominated by Meta (Facebook), Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, and Alphabet (Google) --aka "MAMAA". Technologies that serve and empower us all -- such as the new model social networks Bluesky and Mastodon-- don't feed off advertising and business engagement but still create communities. Under its guidance, the plan is for Solid to enable the web to include identity management, access control, and universal data standards.

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