The Future of the Web with Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Name | The Future of the Web with Sir Tim Berners-Lee - 8 July |
Date | 8 July |
Location | NESTA, 1 Plough Place, London, EC4A 1DE |
Time | 4pm - 7pm |
Description | Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web, discussed the exciting new field of web science which he is pioneering at MIT, in partnership with colleagues at Southampton University, which seeks to understand the impact the web is having on our society and economy. He was joined by Andy Duncan the Chief Executive of Channel 4 and Charlie Leadbeater the author of 'We-think: The Power of Mass Creativity' for a lively discussion around how governments, business and academia can safeguard the future of the web as an open platform for information exchange and collaboration. |
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Added: 02/07/2008 3:17pm
Oli Mould
Looking forward to the talk - it might be useful for people to watch this before hand – gives some useful insight into what the web could turn into… http://www.thersa.org/events/vision/vision-videos/jonathan-zittrain