The truth is I haven’t the faintest idea where it is going to be in five years’ time. When the Web as an information space becomes an assumption, then it will be time for the next revolution. In five years’ time the next revolution may have happened on top of the Web. It will happen within the Web. It may be mobile code. It may be robots working for you. It may be people finding ways of interacting politically.
Predictor: Berners-Lee, Tim
Prediction, in context:Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 as a global information sharing initiative for the Internet spoke with Computer Reseller News Industry Editor Steven Burke and Senior Editor Diana Hwang at the 1995 World Wide Web conference in Boston. In response to the question, ÒWhere is the Web going to be in the next five years?Ó Berners-Lee replies: ”The truth is I haven’t the faintest idea where it is going to be in five years’ time. When the Web as an information space becomes an assumption, then it will be time for the next revolution. In five years’ time the next revolution may have happened on top of the Web. It will happen within the Web. It may be mobile code. It may be robots working for you. It may be people finding ways of interacting politically.Ó
Biography:Tim Berners-Lee of CERN first released his revolutionary World-Wide Web for initial use in 1991 and with it shared his invention HTML (hypertext mark-up language). He later served as director of W3 Consortium, an open forum of companies and organizations whose goal was to find ways to help the Web reach its full potential. (Pioneer/Originator.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: General, Overarching Remarks
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Computer Reseller News
Title, headline, chapter name: Web Inventor Berners-Lee Speaks Out on Internet Future
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
Page 227
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne