The Original Idea Of The Web Was

I Don't Know Whether Machine Translation Will Eventually Get Good Enough To Allow Us To Browse People's Websites In Different Languages So You Can See How They Live In Different Countries.

Customers Need To Be Given Control Of Their Own Data-not Being Tied Into A Certain Manufacturer So That When There Are Problems They Are Always Obliged To Go Back To Them.

We Need To Look At The Whole Society And Think, "are We Actually Thinking About What We're Doing As We Go Forward, And Are We Preserving The Really Important Values That We Have In Society? Are We Keeping It Democratic, And Open, And So On?"

Innovation Is Serendipity, So You Don't Know What People Will Make.

One Way To Think About The Magnitude Of The Changes To Come Is To Think About How You Went About Your Business Before Powerful Web Search Engines. You Probably Wouldn't Have Imagined That A World Of Answers Would Be Available To You In Under A Second. The Next Set Of Advances Will Have An Different Effect, But Similar In Magnitude.