- Lisa Green
Recently, I watched Sir Timothy Berners-Lee’s TED talk The next Web of open, linked data . Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web and the talk is extremely thought-provoking.
Today’s internet is something we frequently take for granted – as if we have always had the power to access a trillion hyperlinked documents. But listening to Berners-Lee makes you consider the time before the web was born. In the 1980s, Tim Berners-Lee was frustrated by the difficulty in unlocking the enormous potential of his lab’s data, methods, devices and protocols. He sought a way to easily share documents and link information and eventually came up with the idea of using the internet to link hypertext documents.
