New book: This Is For Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web

Title: This Is For Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web Author: Tim Berners-Lee Publisher: Picador Pages: 400 Since its invention in 1989, the World Wide Web has changed everything—transforming humanity into the first digital species. Through the web, we live, work, dream, quarrel, and connect. It has launched a new era of creativity and collaboration while unleashing powerful forces that imperil truth and privacy and polarize public debate. As artificial intelligence supercharges the online experience, the stakes of understanding the web’s origins and evolution, and guiding its future, have never been greater. In This Is for Everyone, the web’s inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, recounts the story of his iconic creation and offers a vital perspective on today’s most urgent technological questions. With his trademark humor and candor, he recounts how he arrived at CERN, the European Council for Nuclear Research, as a young engineer. At a time when the internet’s use was…

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