The Better Web / The Human Web / The Living Web

The Group That Rules the Web

Billions of humans will use the Web over the next decade, yet very few of those people are in a position to define what is “the Web” and what isn’t.

Opinion | How to Save the Web (Published 2018)

Governments, businesses and users around the world must commit to a set of fundamental principles for the web.

It's time to rebuild the web

The web was never supposed to be a few walled gardens of concentrated content owned by a few major publishers; it was supposed to be a cacophony of different sites and voices.

The Missing Building Blocks of the Web

At a time when millions are losing trust in the the web’s biggest sites, it’s worth revisiting the idea that the web was supposed to be…

The A.I.-Design Aesthetic That’s Taking Over the Internet

How Anthropic’s new tool, Claude Design, is creating overnight web-design clichés.

The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It (Published 2016)

Tim Berners-Lee and other computer scientists are pondering newer technologies to create a web with more privacy and less government control.

Introducing Ringspace: A Proposal for the Human Web

For months, I've been working on a project to demonstrate how we can preserve humanity on the web. It's finally ready for testing.

Break up the Browsers.  A Proposal to Save the Open Web. - Movement For An Open Web

The Open Web is one of the world’s modern wonders.  Based on core, universally recognised technical standards and owned and controlled by no one body, it is a unique structureRead More

How the Web Was Lost – James Gleick

This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Webby Tim Berners-Lee with Stephen WittFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 389 pp., $30

Make It Work vs. Make It Good

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

Rewilding the Web: my workshop report from Edinburgh

Notes from a wonderfully interdisciplinary Edinburgh workshop on 'Rewilding the Web', ranging coopetition and biological variety through the philosophy of self-organisation, polycrisis governance, protopian science fiction, and moderation seen through the lens of artisanal cheese.

The Mediated Web

<p>Large Language Models have the potential to hugely shift what it means to interact with a web browser.</p> <p>Here’s a prediction: the web will soon be mediated by agents, not just rendered by web browsers. Every user will have their own AI interpreting information for them, and executing tasks on their behalf.</p> <p>What does this mean now, and what does it mean for the future of the web? Let’s delve into what a mediated web might look like, and how it could impact the internet ecosystem.</p>

The Perfect Webpage

The web is filled with content designed for Google, not humans.

The Big Reverse of the Web

We are at the beginning of a massive re-architecture of the web where we go from "pull" to "push". Eventually, content will find us.

Meditations on The Human Web

To save the internet, we may have to rebuild it.