35 years ago today, the World Wide Web changed our lives forever — as Tim Berners-Lee says, ‘trading personal data for use certainly does not fit with my vision for a free web’
THE SO WHAT
Berners-Lee publicly rejecting the "data for access" bargain is a reminder that the current ad-and-tracking web is a contingent business model, not a law of nature. As AI assistants intermediate more of user behavior, there is room—and pressure—for new value exchanges that don't depend on maximal data extraction.
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