Tim Berners-Lee
The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web, known for his pioneering work in creating a platform that transformed global communication. This interview reveals his visionary approach to technology, emphasizing the importance of creativity, collaboration, and the potential for positive societal impact through the web.
“In the scientific world or in the medical world, who's interested in doing research about you then finds you really, really much more valuable target.”
“Well, I see merits and demerits who approaches certainly. You can see that when it comes to doing something like organizing a national project for AI, obviously the Chinese are very national project oriented, everything in China more or less is a national project.”
“Have links. And I had this idea that you could take all of the existing documentation systems around there at CERN. You could wrap them up together under one roof. You could make a meta system which would include them all. And I wrote it out and gave it to my boss, Peggy, and I gave it to her boss, Mike Sandal.”
“Yes. And I suppose compounded with the fact my natural shyness is that I ended up going to a school, a manual school, is actually a train ride away. So the friends I made at school were all based around that sort of trap and junction area. The catchment area was based in Cap Junction, whereas I was coming from East Sheen.”
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