Ethics, Worldview & Influence

Build With Responsibility

In 1989, a British computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and made it free for everyone on purpose. He could have patented it and become one of the richest people in history. He chose not to, because he believed the web should belong to everyone. Thirty years later, he watched the web become a tool for surveillance, misinformation, and manipulation, and he spent the rest of his career trying to fix the problems his own invention had made possible. In this lesson you will learn that innovation always has externalities, practise asking responsible design questions, work through an impact case study, and build your own responsibility checklist.