When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.

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.

What we believe, endorse, agree with, and depend on is representable and, increasingly, represented on the Web. We all have to ensure that the society we build with the Web is the sort we intend.

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

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.

Physicists analyse systems. Web scientists, however, can create the systems.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.