As World Wide Web turns 30, its inventor urges 2.0 ethics upgrade
Since unleashing his invention on the world at CERN, Tim Berners-Lee has continued to wrestle with the implications.
CERN
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, is the world's largest particle physics laboratory. It is home to the Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, which was famously used in 2012 to discover the Higgs boson.
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