Utopia to Dystopia and Back Again?

Abstract

Sir Tim Berners-Lee delivered his Turing Award Lecture at the ACM Web Science Conference in Amsterdam on May 29, 2018, titled “Utopia to Dystopia and Back Again?: What is the World Wide Web and what is its future? What could it be, what should it be? What is the Web we want?” This is a lightly edited transcript of the Turing Award Lecture Video available at https://amturing.acm.org/vp/berners-lee_8087960.cfm. The corresponding slide deck is available at https://www.w3.org/2018/Talks/0529timbl-turing/timbl-turing-slides-utopia-to-dystopia.html.