20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM6XIICm_qo[/youtube]Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He leads the World Wide Web Consortium, overseeing the Web’s standards and development.
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TED Talks: Tim Berners-Lee on the next Web