"One way to think about the magnitude of the changes to come is to think about how you went about your business before powerful Web search engines. You probably wouldn't have imagined that a world of answers would be available to you in under a second. The next set of advances will have an different effect, but similar in magnitude."

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Source: Web inventor: Online life will produce more creative children. Interview with Lila King, www.cnn.com. October 10, 2005.

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Tim Berners-Lee

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Tim Berners-Lee is a computer scientist best known for inventing the World Wide Web, revolutionizing how we access and share information globally.

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