The internet revolution has just begun, Tim Berners-Lee,
the inventor of the web, told the World Wide Web Conference 2006 in
Edinburgh last week.
About 1,500 industry leaders and academics gathered to discuss
the way the web should develop. At the beginning of the conference
Berners-Lee told delegates, “We are at the embryonic stages of the
web. The web is going to be more revolutionary.”
He said, “There is a lot of change happening and a huge amount
of change to come [on the web],” and highlighted the development of
Google’s algorithm, web logs, wikis, and other innovations.
People are used to an open web, but there are challenges to
this, said Berners-Lee. “The web has become a hugely commercial
space, and right now in the US there is commercial pressure to try
to legislate to get more control over what you see.”
In a keynote for the conference, David Brown, chairman of
Motorola, described the potential of the mobile internet.
He said users’ perceptions of mobile technology was changing
through the digitisation of everything, including bills, music,
books, bank balances and television, which are all delivered,
accessed and shared in the same way. “Intelligence is exploding out
of the PC to become embedded everywhere.”
Brown said it was important that the mobile internet was based
on standards and a business model based on value, rather than the
standard IP model (network charges) or the standard cellular
business model (call tariffs).
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