To Be A Hacker - When I

I Basically Wrote The Code And The Specs And Documentation For How The Client And Server Talked To Each Other.

It's Possible To Live Without The Web. It's Not Possible To Live Without Water. But If You've Got Water, Then The Difference Between Somebody Who Is Connected To The Web And Is Part Of The Information Society, And Someone Who (is Not) Is Growing Bigger And Bigger.

One Way To Think About The Magnitude Of The Changes To Come Is To Think About How You Went About Your Business Before Powerful Web Search Engines. You Probably Wouldn't Have Imagined That A World Of Answers Would Be Available To You In Under A Second. The Next Set Of Advances Will Have An Different Effect, But Similar In Magnitude.

The Web Took Off In All Its Glory Because It Was A Royalty-free Infrastructure . . . When I Invented The Web, I Didn't Have To Ask Anyone's Permission. Now, Hundreds Of Millions Of People Are Using It Freely. I Am Worried That That Is Going To End In The U.s.a. If We Had A Situation In Which The U.s. Had Serious Flaws In Its Net Neutrality, And Europe Did Have Net Neutrality, And I Were Trying To Start A Company, Then I Would Be Very Tempted To Move.

As More And More People Awaken To The Threats Against Our Basic Rights Online, We Must Start A Debate - Everywhere - About The Web We Want.