The web is 20

by Jay Cross on March 14, 2009

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, on the twentieth anniversary of his invention of the web, gives a 16-minute TED talk on the future. Link data = everything is connected to everything; don’t hide the connections. Relationships to the level of mysticism. Tim is disarmingly clear; his profundities are aw, shucks, of course. “Raw data now,” he chants. Tim wants the real stuff, not filtered pablum. Don’t generalize; share the real deal.


Tim’s conclusion reminds me of Goethe’s observation that if everyone swept in front of his house, the entire world would be clean.

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