"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..." Dickens' famous words in "A Tale of Two Cities" lays out a timeless comparison, the paradox of how the situations we find ourselves in can be both terrible and hopeful at the same time. We'll look at the web (past, present, and future) through these lenses, and hope to inspire the challenges and changes we should be tackling to remake the web into something better.