For MIT’s latest issue of Technology Review, the editors asked several technology and internet luminaries about what they imagine the web will be like in five or ten years. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and one of the real inventors of the internet, had this to say:
“I would like to see the internet reach people in rural areas and help alleviate poverty. I would like to see more people reaching the web from devices big and small, fixed and mobile. I look forward to more voice technology—in hands-busy scenarios such as driving, and also to increase accessibility (e.g., for people with low vision). The long tail of video on the web is creating a new market of direct access to independent films and also has the potential to help with literacy issues. I hope for the proliferation of Linked Open Data: the Semantic Web ‘done right.’ I hope that governments will open their data stores to all citizens. A mashup sphere will feast on a wealth of Semantic Web data and herald the next wave of progress and creativity on the web.”
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