
Berners-Lee regrets that at the dawn of the internet, no one created a system for making small and secure payments. RBC Berners-Lee, while creating the World Wide Web at CERN, dreamed of “a new era of human creativity.” RBC A few firms have come to dominate the new economy, and now web surfing means spending time on resources owned by Meta, Google, and Amazon. RBC “There cannot be a very rigid system capable of recording only tables and data with rows and columns,” he says.