https://www.cnet.com/news/father-of-the-world-wide-web-reflects-on-30th-anniversary/

"Imagine you have a big problem like climate change or curing cancer, but the pieces are in different people's brains," he said at the event, hosted by The Washington Post at its headquarters in DC. "That's what the goal of the web was: to connect all these people."

But 30 years on, the web has been "hijacked by crooks" that could destroy it, Berners-Lee said. It's morphed into a platform where disinformation spreads like a contagion, hate foments and personal privacy has been relinquished to the highest bidder looking to make a quick buck.