Endorsements

Tim Berners-Lee’s This Is for Everyone is more than just an autobiography. This book is an insightful recounting of the development of the World Wide Web and a profound declaration on how humanity should remain at the center of technology as we move forward in the 21st century.

Sir Tim’s powerful memoir takes us on a guided tour through the creation and evolution of the Web by the inventor himself with a humble, gripping, inspiring personal story. This is not just a history; it's an extraordinary personal testament to human and technological potential and a critical reminder that as AI begins to even more dramatically transform our lives, we must work, as Tim does, to ensure that technology is built to nurture creativity, collaboration and compassion for all.

The World Wide Web is only thirty-six years old, but like much in our industrialised society we already take it for granted. However, it did not happen by accident - like everything that we make, first it had to be designed by someone. That someone is Tim Berners-Lee, and in ‘This is For Everyone’ he describes its creation. It is a great story and the narrative is full of insights into the world of science and makes for compulsive reading.

Tim Berners-Lee’s invention of the World Wide Web is a landmark event of the last 50 years - and his tireless work to keep the Web accessible to everyone is a service to humanity. In this absorbing, entertaining, and all-important book, Berners-Lee tells the story of the Web's genesis, reckons with its evolution, and offers urgent and visionary guidance for its future.

Tim Berners-Lee stands tall amongst our greatest inventors, making history not just because of the world wide web he pioneered but because he made it available free to everyone. Not only that but his story of creativity continues: his Solid project seeks to put the control of technology where it should and must be - in the hands of the people.

Through the world wide web we can see human nature let loose on an unprecedented scale. All voices are being heard - the good, the bad, the everything. We have crossed a threshold where we can look at ourselves and the power of the individual in a completely new way.

‘This is for Everyone’ takes us on a journey with this incredibly important man and his work as a visionary.

Full of warmth and humanity, he is on a mission to fight for the integrity of the web: determined that his living, evolving creation will bring us all together in harmony.

As a company running computer networks before the dawn of the internet age, Bloomberg was an early beneficiary of the towering wave of change that Tim Berners-Lee ushered in with the World Wide Web. His book offers a fascinating look at the origin and evolution of a world-transforming invention and how we can harness its potential as a force for good.

Who is the greatest living Englishman? It would be hard to argue against the merits of Tim Berners-Lee

How lucky we are that the first new major application built on top of the generative Internet — welcoming contribution from anywhere — was Tim Berners-Lee's brainchild, the Web. The Web's affordances reflect Tim's extraordinary brilliance, his deeply humanistic values, and his humble outlook, and this book represents a definitive account of just how it worked. This Is For Everyone is both eye-opening memoir and stirring manifesto: the inventor's sketch of how we got here, and a roadmap for where we might still go, if we choose wisely.