Bonus Interview- Tim Berners-Lee - Inventing the Web

Last month I was off in Boston for the 4th annual World Wide Web conference, and I had the opportunity to talk to the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee.

And I asked him a little bit about, where are we going with this Web stuff?

And we have just a little bit of footage from Tim telling us where that’s going to be.

You ain’t seen nothing yet, but you wait until people assume the Web.

When the Web becomes something you can assume, when the Web and the infrastructure is all laid down and we have an information space, then it will be time for the next revolution, and who knows what that will be.

It’s hard to imagine a greater revolution than what we’ve seen, I mean I go to the smallest places and everybody’s putting up a web page.

Right, the Web revolution could only take place because of the Internet, which had been a quieter, smaller revolution, but that had been, the Internet itself quietly being deployed throughout the world had happened, because the Internet was something people could assume, the Web revolution could take place.

When the Web is something you can assume, then maybe a cultural revolution, and I say cultural revolution, an e-cultural revolution, perhaps.

Or maybe we’ll find ways of doing things better than we hadn’t imagined.

Pretty neat, Rich.

One of the things that I liked about it was he just said, his idea was the next step is something completely different.

A cultural revolution as compared to just a little more technology.