The man who gave us the web is building a better digital wallet

Imagine a world in which you have complete control over your online data. Tim Berners-Lee is working to make that real.

In a way, Tim Berners-Lee’s current project is more ambitious than the one that changed history. When he conceived the World Wide Web in 1989, it didn’t compete with any other deeply-entrenched system for sharing information across the internet, which was still limited to government and academic users at the time. Indeed, without the web, the internet might never have had mass appeal in the first place.