Monthly Clicks – November 2019

This is the monthly post where I share my favourite clicks from this month! Topics this month: technology news, millennial culture, and Tim Berners-Lee reckoning with his invention.

I Invented the World Wide Web. Here’s How We Can Fix It by Tim Berners-Lee for the New York Times

by Wren McDonald

In 1989, when he worked at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Now, 30 years later, his invention has changed the world in ways he probably never anticipated. But instead of accepting the internet as it is, Berners-Lee, together with experts and governments, is taking a stand against misinformation and exploitation – the Contract for the Web is a global plan of action to make sure “our online world is safe, empowering and genuinely for everyone”. Click here to read his opinion piece in the New York Times or click here to read the principles. Psst – by signing up to their newsletter you endorse the contract yourself.