the statistician, the guy who gets tired of saying binary digit and finally says, ìcome on, letís call them bits guys.î And then we get bit. Bernetta Miller, no institution functions without a secretary who keeps everything going and solves the problems and gets things done, she was the fifth person in the United States to get a pilotís license and then her eyesight started going bad so she ended up getting a job at the institute and ran things.
the progenitor of all this-- would have an editing tool. For Berners-Lee, why was an editing tool so important? It just was like a metaphor or a way of making sure that people could feel that the internet wasn't passive, the web wasn't passive, that you were part of it.
Insight that says there's slightly less air pressure over a curved surface than a a moving curved surface and a flat surface and we still don't understand berne 's principle they're still arguing whether it has to do with thermodynamics and uh how how that works the science has not been settled but engineering and technology did not wait for it to be
including the Royal Botanic Gardens in Q here in London. Alex Summers is curator of living collections at Q. He's been speaking to my colleague Emma Bernett. We do it for a very good reason, which is celebrating the majesty and diversity of the plant kingdom and and any any
It actually contributed to a Nobel Prize for Simon van der Meer and Carlo Rubbia at CERN in about the '70s, I think. And so then you get Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web as a solution to that communication and data sharing problem.
persuasive than us, or even if they don't, how-- and a lot of political speech takes place in online platforms-- how on Earth are we The second quote is from Tim Berners-Lee who couldn't be more different from Karl Marx and his politics, his temperament, or indeed, his choice of facial hair.
um who is going to be talking about uh designing your life, how to build a well-lived and joyful life. Um this is a book that he co-wrote with Bill Bernett. uh and it is based on a course um that he is teaching now that is that uses design thinking um to help you uh
Now, you may say people were involved in the inventions that led to the internet and the design is part of it. And if CERN hadn't employed Tim Berners-Lee to invent the World Wide Web, someone else would have come up something very, very similar.
own range of applications, that investing in good-quality identity and authentication is really important, because that's the only way we will convince people that it's okay The semantic Web is something that Tim Berners-Lee I know has been working on very hard.
of that is the longerterm problem about housing and housing supply. And we know housing and housing supply. And we know that is another really big central thing that is another really big central thing that Andy Berner wants to wants to that Andy Berner wants to wants to address. So with a big council house address. So with a big council house building program, there's a lot of focus building program, there's a lot of focus on social and affordable housing, but
Were you there for that? Clare Balding, Tim Berners-Lee, amazing speakers. Well today's going to be a bit different.
And you can build any kind of app you want. You know, when Tim Berners Lee came along and invented the web, we all said, oh, what a fantastic thing. It just naturally ran on top of our platform.
to think about it all. And the blueprint for that is the fact that-- what Tim Berners-Lee built and all the protocols that we use for email and for internet connection. They have no inherent value on their own.
It has to have that human scale, not the digital billion users scale. And we were kind of talking about Tim Berners-Lee before, and in this sense, this is kind of what I think Berners-Lee was talking about. Early on, he wanted this editing tool with a browser, right?
parts were old they were ancient uh but it was the combination that provide that created the big breakthrough Tim berners Lee inventor of the worldwide web uh but the worldwide web is uh you
Dan: I assume that there's a way to actually create a cluster that follows that dramatic diagonal stripe, the sort of light from the sun god up there in the center -- Ben Shneiderman: Yeah -- Dan: radiating down below -- Ben Shneiderman: Tim Berners-Lee and I'm sorry, that's Tim Berners-Lee. This is, the way it's going out these are his close collaborators. The clustering algorithm actually put them in a separate cluster, not together with him which is that's the way clustering algorithms
is the first World Wide Web server that Tim Berners-Lee put together. This is back in the day when the World Wide Web was on one server, where you could trip over the power
Web has been exapted to do all these things that Tim Berners-Lee never dreamed of, right?
of the internet, and also Tim Berners-Lee, who hadn't really intended for this kind of concentration that we are seeing today.
And Tarski, he's a Bernese mountain dog.
But anyway, his name was Tim Berners-Lee.
Of the things that's been very interesting is to see Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 25 years into the web, standing up and saying, I'm not sure we got the web we want.
Now, the question is when Tim Berners-Lee puts a layer of that that have hypertext protocols
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million copies, the author, a psychiatrist named Eric Berne , argued that when people interact with others in their
cost $3 a barrel this is a quote not from the shell boom in 2008 but from Burke Bernett Texas in 1939 from a story
turquoise, so different notes in each eye. Tim Bernes Lee has a very odd sound of eyelid, so his eyelids sound very
Okay. So welcome to Design Your Life. So we're going to spend about an hour together, you know, and let me tell you where we're going to go. Um, so Bill Bernett is the guy that's on a plane going to Korea right now. So he's has to run off and talk to Samsung, so he would love to be here. But this is this is my friend Bill. Um, you know, and I'm and
by the number of nodes in each box, and so you get a set of researchers including our own Jimmy Lin over here sized by the number of followers. Tim Berners-Lee has got a big set of followers so he's over here, but some of his collaborators you may know, Jim Hendler and Nigel Shadbolt have a separate group. The Brazilians were over here and we're able to discern patterns and I'll show you some other examples of those, of how we began to
FREDERICK "SHAD" ROWE: Well, I worked for this firm called Schneider, Bernet & Hickman.
figure but he was covering everybody else's asses. Um, it also put, lit a fire under the open data movement in British government and it's why a guy like Tim Berners-Lee has actually
So, you know the parallel here, right? You know where I'm going with this, right? This is exactly what Berners-Lee did; this is exactly what this business was built around; this
I Tweet, yes, I do, I Facebook and I have been involved in a myriad of listservs and on-line communities. One, for owners of Bernese Mountain dogs; another for devotees of raw
cord and be like, "Oh, I'm so sorry. The World Wide Web is down." Which we've moved beyond that. But, it's a famous story, but Berners-Lee, this is a classic