[AFP] While the internet has dramatically changed lives around the world, its full impact will only be realised when far more people and information go online, its founders said on Wednesday.”The web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past,” said Tim Berners-Lee, one of the inventors of the World Wide Web, at a seminar on its future.
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But that level is expected to rise, especially in developing nations, as mobile internet access takes off, making it no longer necessary to use a computer to surf the web, said internet co-founder Vinton Cerf.
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Robert Cailliau, who designed the web with Berners-Lee in 1989, said having more data on the internet, and more people with the ability to access it, will spur the development of new technology and solutions to global problems.
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