The Web’s Inventor Regrets One Small Thing

October 12, 2009, 3:31 pm
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/the-webs-inventor-regrets-one-small-thing/?ref=technology

In this article by Steve Lohr he talks about a conversation he had with the person who created the web. In it he talks about how the inventor Tim Berners-Lee had one small regret and that was to have had the double slashed erased from the http://. That was pretty funny but he goes on to talk about how Berners-Lee's new enthusiasm is to have more government data on the web and is currently working with the British government to do just that. He states that the lesson of the web is that making information and simple online tools freely available inevitably fuels innovation.
This article is very important as it relates to this class as the web becomes more and more part of our lives. In this article it is mentioned that the benefits of having more info available online for example having simple mash-ups like combining roadway maps with bicycle accident reports. And as result it lowers the chance of bicyclist being in accidents as they know which roads to avoid. This impacts us as students and as a society.