Internet creator claims that the web could cure incurable diseases
June 9th, 2009 - 6:09 pm ICT by ANILondon, June 9 (ANI): Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the World Wide Web, insists that the Internet holds the potential to fight climate change and incurable diseases in future.
Speaking in New York after receiving lifetime achievement prize at the Webby awards, Berners-Lee said that the increasing mass of online information could help experts spot breakthroughs in the battles against illnesses like cancer and Alzheimer’s, as well as global warming.
The Webby awards honour excellence in the world of Internet.
“The (internet) explodes when somebody has the creativity to look at a piece of data that has been put there for one reason but realises they can connect it with something else,” the Daily Express quoted him as saying.
He added: “(Like) cure a disease or figure out something to do with Alzheimer’s… or cancer… or realise something about global warming because we managed to get all the data about the state of the world out there on the web. Giving people access to the data gives scientists huge amounts of power, it gives citizens huge amounts of power.”
Berners-Lee thought about the World Wide Web in 1989 to provide scientists with a way to share and search electronic documents.
The Oxford University-alumni is currently working as a professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, US. (ANI)
- WWW inventor favours mobiles to widen web access - Mar 31, 2011
- WWW2011: Focusing on internet's next billion users - Mar 24, 2011
- Web founder says Facebook is a trap - Nov 24, 2010
- Inventor Berners-Lee says Internet disconnection is 'like being imprisoned' - Sep 29, 2010
- Web creator calls on governments to preserve net neutrality - Apr 21, 2011
- World wide web inventor to protect 'open internet' - Mar 17, 2011
- Internet founder calls for free access worldwide - Sep 16, 2010
- World Wide Web conference begins in Hyderabad - Mar 28, 2011
- Indian e-voting researcher wins US award - Oct 22, 2010
- Southampton varsity department becomes first to release public data in open linked data format - Jul 19, 2010
- Pitt, Carrey bag top Webby awards - May 05, 2010
- Wiretapping threatening Internet, says web inventor Tim Berners-Lee - Mar 12, 2009
- New solar cell technology best suited for India: Inventor - Jun 10, 2010
- Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee apologises for the irritating "//" in URLs - Oct 14, 2009
- Webby Award Winners Announced - May 05, 2010
Tags: alzheimer, climate change, computer science, daily express, electronic documents, global warming, honour excellence, illnesses, incurable diseases, institute of technology, internet creator, lifetime achievement, massachusetts institute of technology, massachusetts institute of technology mit, oxford university, sir tim berners lee, tim berners lee, university alumni, webby awards, who created the world wide web
