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Like Dr. Frankenstein, Tim Berners-Lee – creator of the World Wide Web – is sickened by the monster he's unleashed on the world.
"An engine of inequity and division," he says of the modern web.
But now, Berners-Lee believes he has created a new parallel website that will allow users to bypass known imperfect giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google.
The open source project, called "Solid", is its mission of decentralization of the Web which consists for several years to let users choose the location of their data storage, as well as people who can access it.
"Solid is changing the current model in which users must pass on their personal data to digital giants in exchange for perceived value," he said in a blog post. "As we all discovered, it was not in our interest".
Essentially, Solid gives users their own Internet, he explained in an interview with Fast Company.
"We have to do it now," Berners-Lee told the website, highlighting the ongoing revelations about Facebook co-opting by hackers and foreign powers. "It's a historic moment."
In addition, he continued, "We are now in the solid world."
The 63-year-old Oxford-based Berners-Lee worked on the project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where, along with Oxford, he is a professor of computer science.
Berners-Lee has also developed a start-up called Inrupt launched this week which aims to provide users with tools to create their own applications on Solid.
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