Business Profile: Sir Tim Berners-Lee

Business Profile: Sir Tim Berners-Lee

The inventor of the World Wide Web believes the Net will help nations cross barriers and connect cultures.

Age: 63

Industry:Professor of Computer Science

Forbes 100 greatest business minds 2018

On Technology:

“I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.”

On Innovation:

“Innovation is serendipity, so you don’t know what people will make.”

On Information:

“It’s difficult to imagine the power that you’re going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.”

Image: Sir Tim Berners-Lee at Gulltaggen conference, 2012 / Flickr, Jarle Naustvik, under a CC BY-SA 2.0 licence

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