![Tim Berners-Lee was honored with the Turing Award for his work inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and "the fundamental protocols and algorithms [that allowed] the web to scale."](/sites/default/files/images/migration/tim-berners-lee-mit-turing-award-00_0.jpg)
Dertouzos Distinguished Lecture - May 2, 2018
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
This year marks a milestone in the history of the World Wide Web: more than half of the world's population will be online. However, threats to the web are real and many; from misinformation and questionable political advertising to a loss of control over our personal data.
If a future web were to empower the hopes we had for the original web, what would it look like? A new web is possible in which people have complete control of their own data; applications and data are separated from each other; and a user's choice for each are separate. Let's assemble the brightest minds from business, technology, government, civil society, the arts and academia to build a new web which will again empower science and democracy.