Brian Ahier - Health IT & Healthcare Reform: Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Tim O'Reilly

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Brian Ahier - Health IT & Healthcare Reform

Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Tim O'Reilly

Sir Tim Berners-Lee closed out the Web 2.0 Summit with an amazing discussion with Tim O'Reilly. During this discussion, the inventor of the World Wide Web spelled out his thoughts on how his creation has developed and the dangers it faces. The decision to keep the Web open had a simple explanation: "Otherwise, it would not have worked."

Considering his background as a strong advocate of an open Web through his efforts in his World Wide Web Foundation and leadership of the W3C Web standards group, it is no surprise that he sees adanger as a lack of openness. "Basically, I'm always worried about anything large or someone coming in to control it... a company or a large government," Berners-Lee said. "Whenever there's a play to make a stranglehold, that's a bad thing." If the Web were less open, users might be forced to sort through multiple data sources of unconnected content to find information. "If you had ...

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