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Tim Berners-Lee has been making headlines once again as the inventor of the World Wide Web and a tireless advocate for an open, accessible internet. Over the last few days, he received the prestigious 2025 Internet Archive Hero Award, which was announced in The New Yorker and celebrated during a public conversation at the Commonwealth Club of California on October 9. This event, now featured as a special episode of the Future Knowledge podcast, marked the archiving of a trillion web pages and honored Berners-Lee's foundational contributions. Not only did he reflect on the web's past, he highlighted its future as a force for positive change and doubled down on his vision for maximum social good.
Even thirty-five years after inventing the web, Berners-Lee continues his quest to create a more benign and people-empowering online world, as covered by The Media Leader. He recently tweeted, "This is for everyone," echoing his longstanding mantra. Berners-Lee remains critical of major tech platforms for prioritizing profit over social good and has openly called for government regulation to address issues like fake news, divisive algorithms, and manipulation on social media. His solutions combine advocacy and action: he has co-founded the Open Data Institute and launched the Solid Project, a bid to give users control over their own data via interoperable standards. Through his company Inrupt, Berners-Lee is developing data wallets and a personalized AI agent named Charlie, aiming to put individuals—not corporations—in charge of their personal information and insights.
On the business front, Tim Berners-Lee is set to headline the Talent Arena at Barcelona's upcoming Mobile World Congress in March 2026, joining techno-entrepreneur Steve Aoki and robotics specialist Kate Darling, as announced by Catalan News. This event, already a benchmark for European digital talent, will further cement Berners-Lee's reputation as a thought leader driving technological change.
In recent interviews, like the one with Startup News on November 10, Berners-Lee has made his stance clear: artificial intelligence will not destroy the web. Instead, he believes AI agents, when properly designed and regulated, will work for social benefit and empower users. He maintains that algorithms are key to solving online toxicity, as echoed by Euronews, and continues pushing for protocol updates that decentralize the web and allow users to control their personal identities and data.
As for public appearances, Berners-Lee is also headlining events at the Sydney Opera House and Oxford University's Sheldonian Theatre, where he shares insights from his memoir "This Is For Everyone," underscores the ethic of digital individualism, and revisits stories from the web's first days to today’s challenges at the intersection of democracy, data and tech power.
On social media, his message remains consistent: trust individuals with their data, regulate platforms if necessary, and innovate with ethical AI as a partner for humanity. Berners-Lee's active push for regulation, data sovereignty, and decentralized alternatives signifies a man energized by both nostalgia for the web's promise and a steadfast, very public determination to reshape its future for generations to come.
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