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Opinion

In a world where attention is expensive, your message must be economical. It doesn’t matter if this is creatively valid — this is the reality we face now.

Thirty-five years after inventing the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is still trying to create an internet that maximises social good. His core mission is to decentralise the web by liberating data from tech platforms. 

Ad-funded content on platforms doesn’t work because there are too few platforms and the rents are too high. As media fragments and production businesses suffer, creators must diversify to survive.