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Luminaries look to the future web
BBC News, April 30, 2008
Excerpts from the article:
Exactly 15 years ago the directors at the lab where the web was first developed signed a document which said the technology could be used by anyone free of charge.
That decision was instrumental in making the web truly world wide. BBC News talks to some of the leading figures in the web community about their hopes for the future of the web.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee; Professor Nigel Shadbolt; Professor Wendy Hall; Kai-Fu Lee, Google China; Dr. David Belanger, AT&T; Mitchell Baker, Mozilla; Mark Bernstein, PARC; Robert Cailliau, Cern; Robert Scoble, blogger; Tim O'Reilly
Mark Bernstein, PARC
It is a communication revolution. The internet connected resources and what the web has enabled is for people to both communicate with each other and communicate with groups of people and it's allowed the sharing of a common interest that would have no other way of connecting.
It's is going to become a very refined electronic community and a set of communities that will operate at many different levels; individual interests as well as broad social efforts.
You've seen a lot of that take place in the American elections that are gong to be taking place later this year. All the candidates have become very effective at being able to use the web as a way to both communicate and connect with their communities.
Mark Bernstein is president and director of the Palo Alto Research Center.
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