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If ever there was doubt that 2018 is the year of fear, it was confirmed by a panel discussion involving the two men that are credited with inventing the internet and the world wide web.
Inventor of the internet protocols TCP/IP Vint Cerf and inventor of the web Tim Berners-Lee have spent the past 20 years talking in pragmatic but highly optimistic tones about the global networks they helped give birth to.
Today, at the Our People-Centered Digital Future conference in San Jose, the tone was very different. “It’s a time of worry, a time of fear,” Berners-Lee told attendees who range from Silicon Valleyites to policymakers to government folk. “We need to work really hard together to fix it; we’ve got to get to where the internet is a net benefit to humanity.”
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