Technology innovation is starting to explode and having open-source material out there really helps this explosion. You get students and researchers involved and you get people coming through and building start ups based on open source products.

One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.

The Mobile Web Initiative is important - information must be made seamlessly available on any device.

There are converging web-related issues cropping up, like privacy and security, that we currently have no way of thinking about. Nobody has thought to look at how people and the web combine as a whole - until now.

Compared even to the development of the phone or TV, the Web developed very quickly.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

Things can change so fast on the internet.