Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
Any good software engineer will tell you that a compiler and an interpreter are interchangeable.
Customers need to be given control of their own data-not being tied into a certain manufacturer so that when there are problems they are always obliged to go back to them.
The amount of control you have over somebody if you can monitor internet activity is amazing.
It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.
One of the issues of social networking silos is that they have the data and I don't.
We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.
Data is a precious thing and will last longer than the systems themselves.
I want to know if I look up a whole lot of books about some form of cancer that that's not going to get to my insurance company and I'm going to find my insurance premium is going to go up by 5% because they've figured I'm looking at those books.
When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch.
When you go onto the internet, if you really rummage around randomly then how do you hope to find something of any of value?
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.
The most important thing that was new was the idea of URI-or URL, that any piece of information anywhere should have an identifier, which will allow you to get hold of it.