Here's a recent BBC interview with Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium and inventor of the Internet (no, it wasn't Al Gore). In fact, the interview gives us a glimpse into the W3C's noble objectives - developing technologies like standards to achieve a common platform that will create a forum for information, commerce, inspiration, independent thought, and collective understanding
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To borrow a line from Nokia, it's about making technology more human. 'Just that getting there is the tricky part.