Tim Berners-Lee shares his disappointment on World Wide Web’s 29th birthday
I respectfully disagree with him about regulation.<p>If open technology failed by becoming closed, it should be another open technology that defeats it, not some government.<p>Instead if regulating old tech, they should come up with ways to encourage implementation of open and decentralized technologies.<p>This pendulum swing between centralization and decentralization is almost a given and I&#x27;m sure it will happen in one way or another if history is any evidence. It sucks that the world works the way it does, but this frustration is exactly what will spur innovation.<p>Trying to solve this with regulation will do more harm than good because it will only slow down the potential innovation that will inevitably come as the frustration intensifies. It will come naturally because people become fed up with all the bullshit in the world.