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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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It was never clear that it wouldn't just stop (the WWW). Any time during that exponential growth, it could have stalled. I think we were never very confident until 1993.
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If you are not on the web, you will have problems accessing services.
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Now, if someone tries to monopolize the Web, for example pushes proprietary variations on network protocols, then that would make me unhappy.
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Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
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[With AI] Somebody's going to have to think of a completely new algorithm, a new way of doing goal-based planning.
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We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.
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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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Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.
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People keep asking me what I think of it now that it's done. Hence my protest: The Web is not done!
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My own personal preference is that the consumer, the individual person should be protected because individual people and the difference between individual people and the diversity we have between people on the planet is so important.
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It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.
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I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
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AI is not just heading for our industry, it will radically change the machinery we use in marketing.
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I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.
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The Domain Name Server (DNS) is the Achilles heel of the Web. The important thing is that it's managed responsibly.
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When you understand things, there's no more magic.
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