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The goal of the Web is to serve humanity. We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.
Tim Berners-Lee
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Tim Berners-Lee
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: June 8
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The original idea of the web was that it should be a collaborative space where you can communicate through sharing information.
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It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.
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That idea of URL was the basic clue to the universality of the Web. That was the only thing I insisted upon.
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I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to my insurance company and I'm going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they've figured I'm looking at those books.
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Any enterprise CEO really ought to be able to ask a question that involves connecting data across the organization, be able to run a company effectively, and especially to be able to respond to unexpected events. Most organizations are missing this ability to connect all the data together.
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Computers might not find the solutions to our problems, but they would be able to do the bulk of the legwork required, assist our human minds in intuitively finding ways through the maze.
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If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.
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The Google algorithm was a significant development. I've had thank-you emails from people whose lives have been saved by information on a medical website or who have found the love of their life on a dating website.
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Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.
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If different cultures connect with each other, they are less likely to want to shoot each other.
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