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I've been thinking about this a lot lately: what's the future of the web?

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1. где она мера? by Kosta T
2. Through The Storm by P C III
3. Open Door by Little Glass Men

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1. The web used to be like a weird piece of avant garde music
2. Nobody understood it, and nobody could work out how to apply it to anything
3. Until Tim Berners-Lee
4. In 1980 there was a man called Tim Berners-Lee
5. Tim still exists today too by the way, he hasn't vanished or anything
6. But in 1980, he was working on something very special at CERN.
7. He'd previously made a prototype of his information sharing network, that at the time he called ENQUIRE
8. He'd been working on the idea of hypertext: interlinking documents and pages and sharing information
9. When he became a fellow at CERN in 1984, he saw the opportunity to take this idea further
10. Tim created something called the World Wide Web, by pulling together lots of different technologies like the Internet, and hypertext
11. The first website went online on 6th August 1991.
12. It's still online today.
13. From there, the rest is history.
14. And today, I want to speculate on the future.
15. This is AADA, and I'm Craig Burgess
16. Music
17. 27 years later, the world wide web is more powerful and all encompassing than ever
18. It's used for everything,
19. from just plain old boring websites,
20. to replacing government services,
21. to allowing you to book holidays online
22. To actually providing people jobs, like me
23. I think few people would argue with me when I say that the world wide Web and the Internet are the two most important inventions of the last 30 years,
24. And a strong argument could be made for the most important invention of all time too
25. Think for a second
26. You could probably just about imagine life without some of the other greatest inventions
27. If they were gone tomorrow, you could get by without a TV
28. Without a car
29. Without a microwave
30. Without maybe even a phone
31. But try and imagine a life without the internet
32. And that's nearly impossible
33. On a daily basis, I communicate with people
34. Pay bills
35. Book cinema tickets
36. Sometimes book holidays
37. Upload a podcast to let you listen to it
38. Check my bank balance
39. Update websites and get paid to do it
40. Make people websites and get paid to do it
41. Doing all that without the Internet
42. Is either really hard or impossible
43. So that's the Web now, but what is the future?
44. I think about this a lot
45. Especially when I think how far the Web has come in 27 years
46. What will it look like in another 27 years?
47. That’s a really tough question to...