Tim Berners-Lee on reshaping the web

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Tim Berners-Lee on reshaping the web

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Mar 12, 2019

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John Thornhill talks to Tim Berners-Lee about the achievements of the world wide web which he invented 30 years ago, what he thinks has gone wrong and what he is doing to help fix some of these problems. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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Mar 12, 2019

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