Tim Berners-Lee: The next Web of open, linked data

http://www.ted.com 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.


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[Blake Lynch]

TBL is the most generous and genius man in history. He could have dwarfed the Walton's and Gate's in wealth with this powerful program, but he chose to give it to the world for free. He sacrificed wealth for the freedom of information.

[energysage]

His brilliance doesn't come from ingenius ideas, it comes from simple but incredibly useful ideas. What he's suggesting in this talk would be tremendously helpful in advancing our society. I personally wish he would have spent more time on the subject of interdisciplinary research because one of the largest barriers to progress in many scientific fields is our focus on very specific professions at the highest levels of mastery. Our scientists train for depth of knowledge with no breadth.

[MrTrollzful]

Tim Berners-Lee is an Apple fanboy he's against everything else that's not Apple.

[xaxie1]

And he should be more widely recognized!

[bighands69]

You are mistaken the ARPANET was the worlds first internet.

The World Wide Web is something different entirely.

[samala51]

Brilliant man

[Nifal Adam]

Cant dislike someone who invented the world wide web :)

[LLOYD19851012]

America didn't invent the internet, It was Britain, France, Germany and American who invented the internet. It was Sir Tim Berners Lee who is British invented the World Wide Web.

[Jordan Dubray]

I'm guessing you can't remember making this comment.

[Joseph Cockins]

How can i store my document in linked data

[Jason Priddy]

Thank you for clarifying that Magnus :)