Future Directions
Febuary 1996
Tim Berners-Lee
MIT/LCS
Director, W3 Consortium
We could talk about
e.g.
- Security and payment, Web of trust
- Higher bandwidth vs. greater involvement
- Involvement of knowledge agents
- Intercreativity
- ...
Only time to go into one
Interactivity
Perhaps I've been using the wrong word
- Forms
- Clickable maps
- Interactive Games
- "Interactive TV"
- Bookmarks
Are these the pinnacle of our participation?
Creativity
- "Leme do it!"
- Email, News, Web growth
- Online services experience
What "content" are you providing?
- A brain feed?
- A voting booth?
- Raw material for a person's growth?
- Something which they will take further?
Intercreativity
- I can buld with things I find
- Anything I can find I can emulate
- Anythng fnd I can refute
- I build with other people
Needs for Intercreative world
- Continue the hiding of the hardware
- A compound document model - 3d? 4d?
- User-manipulable objects
- Standard software interfaces
- Standard data formats object by object
- Less importance of OS, disappearance of "browser"
Thank you for your attention.