Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web 20 years ago, is proposing a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures and video.
He suggests unlocking raw data globally could unleash a new world of answers, which could connect people and build relationships, aid mankind and generate infinite opportunities.
If everyone partakes – including governments and corporations — “link data” could completely connect the world via unprocessed information, utilizing everything from event and personal data to medical and economic data.
So many more answers would be at our fingertips.
Watch Berners-Lee discuss link data on TED.
Sounds awesome to me! But maybe a little scary as some idiots might use the info in a negative or harmful way.