BBC News reports that Tim Berners-Lee is worried about leaving the web to develop unguided. The article highlights his concerns and sketches a new long-term research collaboration between MIT and the University of Southampton, UK to address future development of the world wide web.
He insisted his new web science research initiative would be more than just computer science.He said he wanted to attract researchers from a range of disciplines to study it as a social as well as technological phenomenon.
Sir Tim added that he hoped it would create a new science for studying the web, which he believes would lead to newer and more exciting systems.
“All kinds of disciplines are going to have to converge. People with all kinds of skills are going to have to work together to build a new web which is going to be even better,” he said.
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@ 21:47
If he’s talking about empowering people with new tools, I could see that, if he’s talking about overseeing in some way, I don’t think too many people would be interested in it.
People are creating the web that they want; I don’t think they want any type of oversight that would interfere with the democracy that it has become.