In many ways, people growing up with the Web and now the Semantic Web take the power at their fingertips for granted.

When it comes to professionalism, it makes sense to talk about being professional in IT. Standards are vital so that IT professionals can provide systems that last.

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

Innovation is serendipity, so you don't know what people will make.

I say that our economic future is in the new technology that will lead to more fuel efficient cars and cleaner energy.

People generally think of technology simply as a spur to start new businesses. But the Internet has also made it possible for more businesses to compete for any given opportunity.

Whether you're a programming prodigy or the office manager holding it all together, technology empowers small groups of passionate people with an astonishing degree of leverage to make the world a better place.

The Fifties and Sixties were years of unreal optimism about weather forecasting. Newspapers and magazines were filled with hope for weather science, not just for prediction but for modification and control. Two technologies were maturing together: the digital computer and the space satellite.