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It's Possible To Live Without The Web. It's Not Possible To Live Without Water. But If You've Got Water, Then The Difference Between Somebody Who Is Connected To The Web And Is Part Of The Information Society, And Someone Who (is Not) Is Growing Bigger And Bigger.

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%!

One Of The Things I Like About The Computer That I Use Is That I Can Write A Program On It Or I Can Download A Program On To It And Run It. That's Kind Of Important To Me, And That's Also Kind Of Important To The Whole Future Of The Internet... Obviously A Closed Platform Is A Serious Brake On Innovation.

The Domain Name Server (dns) Is The Achilles Heel Of The Web. The Important Thing Is That It's Managed Responsibly.

It Was Never Clear That It Wouldn't Just Stop (the Www). Any Time During That Exponential Growth, It Could Have Stalled. I Think We Were Never Very Confident Until 1993.