Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
From Tim Berners-Lee
Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
I think IT projects are about supporting social systems - about communications between people and machines. They tend to fail due to cultural issues.
I'm very aware there are lots of other people who are just bright and working just as hard, with just the same dedication to make the world a good place.
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.
You affect the world by what you browse.
What is a Web year now, about three months? And when people can browse around, discover new things, and download them fast, when we all have agents - then Web years could slip by before human beings can notice.
The Semantic Web is not a separate Web but an extension of the current one, in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.
The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.
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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