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EDITOR'S NOTE: Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the World Wide Web in 1989 as a global information sharing initiative for the Internet, is currently directing the World Wide Web (W3) Consortium at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Berners-Lee last week spoke with CNR Industry Editor Steven Burke and Senior Editor Diana Hwang at the World Wide Web conference in Boston.
CRN: Where is the Web going to be in the next five years?
Tim Berners-Lee: The truth is I haven't the faintest idea where it is going to be in five years' time. When the Web as an information space becomes an assumption, then it will be time for the next revolution.
In five years' time the next revolution may have happened on top of the Web. It will happen within the Web. It may be mobile code. It may be robots working for you. It may be...