World Wide Web Inventor's Top Predictions as It Turns 35

A anonymous reader shares a report: Personal artificial intelligence assistants that know our health status and legal history inside out. The ability to transfer your data from one place to another seamlessly without any roadblocks. These are just some of the predictions for the future of the web from the inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, on the 35th anniversary of its invention.

Another thing Berners-Lee says might happen in the future is a big tech company being forced to break up. Berners-Lee said he always prefers it when tech companies 'do the right thing by themselves' before regulators step in. 'That's always been the spirit of the internet.' He uses the example of the Data Transfer Initiative, a private initiative that launched in 2018 and is now backed by the likes of Google, Apple, and Meta, to encourage portability of photos, videos and other data between their platforms.

'Maybe the companies were prompted a bit by the possibility of regulation,' Berners-Lee said. 'But this was an independent thing.' However, he added: 'Things are changing so quickly. AI is changing very, very quickly. There are monopolies in AI. Monopolies changed pretty quickly back in the web. Maybe at some point in the future, agencies will have to work to break up big companies, but we don't know which company that will be.'

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