Tim Berners-Lee
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist, best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He made a proposal for an information management system in March 1989, and he implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocolclient and server via the Internet sometime around mid-November of that same year...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth8 June 1955
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Microsoft said recently that nearly 50 percent of people need to make some sort of adjustment to their system to interact with it.
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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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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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On the Web, you can allow people to talk to each other, but you have to guarantee that they know who's going to have access to the conversation.
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The recommended strategy is to employ 'smart' buying practices to reduce acquisition and support costs, including software asset management, and increase the use of standards-compliant software,'
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There could still be a huge battle which leaves a big mess and fragments the Web into two pieces whenever a new feature comes along.
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The original idea of the Web was about supporting the way people already work socially, but this doesn't happen with a lot of IT projects.
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Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
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We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
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Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.
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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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When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.
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The internet explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that's put there for one reason and realise they can connect it with something else.
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Physicists analyze systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.