Net guru peers into web's future
The inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, outlines his ideas for a more "intelligent" web in an interview with the BBC programme, Go Digital.
Go Digital: The worldwide web (WWW) transformed the internet from an academic reference tool to an everyday source of information as useful and almost as easy to use as the telephone.
Tim, take us back to the time when the web was little more than a twinkle in your eye. At the time, what dreams did you have for it and did you ever imagine that it would take off in the way it did?
Tim Berners-Lee: I suppose for the few people who had got that twinkle in their eye, it was a catchy twinkle. I think everybody had dreams for it and were involved in the development of it.
But there were so many things like that, so many grand projects you think of that don't turn out, or which don't end up taking off. There isn't enough money or people don't think they are going to work and so on, and the WWW could really have easily been like that.
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