I'm An Optimist About Humanity In General,

The More You Enter, The More You Become Locked In. Your Social-networking Site Becomes A Central Platform - A Closed Silo Of Content, And One That Does Not Give You Full Control Over Your Information In It. The More This Kind Of Architecture Gains Widespread Use, The More The Web Becomes Fragmented, And The Less We Enjoy A Single, Universal Information Space.

One Way To Think About The Magnitude Of The Changes To Come Is To Think About How You Went About Your Business Before Powerful Web Search Engines. You Probably Wouldn't Have Imagined That A World Of Answers Would Be Available To You In Under A Second. The Next Set Of Advances Will Have An Different Effect, But Similar In Magnitude.

Most Larger Companies Now See That For The Market To Grow, Web Infrastructure Must Be Royalty-free.

I Invented The Web Just Because I Needed It Really Because It Was So Frustrating That It Didn't Exit.

If I Had Taken A Proprietary Control Of The Web, Then It Would Never Have Taken Off. People Only Committed Their Time To It Because They Knew It Was Open, Shared: That They Could Help Decide What Would Happen To It Next.. And I Wouldn't Be Raking Off 10%!