This Is for Everyone

The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web

By: Tim Berners-Lee

Narrated by: Stephen Fry, Tim Berners-Lee

The inventor of the World Wide Web explores his vision’s promise—and how it can be redeemed for the future. This audiobook is read by award-winning comedian, actor, presenter and director, Sir Stephen Fry. It also includes a bonus conversation between the author and narrator.

"Narrator Stephen Fry's plummy voice and English accent, combined with his enthusiasm for his topic, make him the perfect narrator. Even when dealing with the technical details of how the author arrived at his invention, his warmth and humor bring life to the subject matter." — AudioFile

Perhaps the most influential inventor of the modern world, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a different kind of technologist. Born in the same year as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, he famously distributed his invention, the World Wide Web, for no commercial reward. Its widespread adoption changed everything—transforming humanity into the first digital species. Through the web, we live, work, dream, quarrel, and connect.

In this intimate memoir, Berners-Lee tells the story of his iconic invention, exploring how it launched a new era of creativity and collaboration while unleashing powerful forces that imperil truth and privacy and polarize public debate. With his trademark humor and candor, he recounts how he arrived at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, as a young engineer, and soon came up with the astonishing idea of adding hyperlinks to the then-nascent Internet. His goal was to unleash a wave of creativity and collaboration for the benefit of all—a goal he’s pursued to this day.

Peppered with rich anecdotes and amusing reflections, This Is for Everyone is a gripping, in-the-room account of the rise of the digital world. As the rapid development of artificial intelligence brings new risks and possibilities, Berners-Lee also offers a crucial guide to the decisions ahead—and shows how our digital lives can be reengineered for the sake of human flourishing rather than profit or for power.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Detailed, informative… yet soo entertaining!

I really enjoyed the amazing detail delivered in the first person! So much historical information and yet so interesting!! I highly recommend this book.

Delightful and inspiring.

I’ve got a long list of bookmarks to read and learn from after finishing this book, I’m excited about the future of the internet again after many years of disillusionment.

Great book, great listen!

Important book for our time, Stephen Fry’s narration is excellent as always! Helpful in know what in this book

Going on the recommendation list

Not just an amazing historical account of the early web, but truly dives into the values that helped the web truly thrive and flourish.

In addition, the second half of the book really looks at the Internet today and the next generation of the Internet unfolding with AI.

Important read in this new era of the internet we are all living in now.

A True Global Hero

Like so many I owe my career success to Sir Tim Berners-Lee. I hope to help Solid and the open web succeed into the next generation.

Thank you Sir Tim. it was good to get to know you, a little , in your book.