Tim Berners-Lee seeks to reinvent internet to leave user in control
Inrupt promises a web where people can use a single sign-on for any service and personal data is stored in ‘pods’ controlled by the user
12 January 2021 - 16:20
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist who was knighted for inventing the internet navigation system known as the World Wide Web, wants to re-make cyberspace once again.
With a new start-up called Inrupt, Berners-Lee aims to fix some of the problems that have handicapped the so-called open web in an age of huge, closed platforms such as Facebook...
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