A few weeks ago, I spoke with the world wide web’s inventor, MIT’s Tim Berners-Lee, at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Reflecting on Impossible, he said that while the web was not inherently designed to “work better for altruistic things … it gives us a choice for what we build on top. It gives us the chance to start again.”

via Lily Cole: welcome to the gift economy, where the kindness of a stranger rules | Lily Cole | Comment is free | theguardian.com.