The World Wide Web is ‘still in its infancy’, according to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the web’s inventor. Speaking ahead of the 15th anniversary of the day when the web’s code was put into the public domain, he mentioned the future web will ultimately put ‘all the data in the world’ at every user’s fingertips. Sir Tim told BBC News:

The web has been a tremendous tool to do a lot of good even though you can still find bad stuff out there.

Making the web free to use played a vital role in spreading its usage worldwide. There are now around 165 million different web sites around the world. Sir Tim sounded ‘optimistic’ about the future of the web. He added:

The experience of developing the web by so many individuals collaborating across the world has simply been a fantastic experience. This experience of international collaboration still continues.

Also the spirit that truly we have only started to explore the various possibilities of (the web), that continues.

Sir Tim predicted that its ability of engendering collaboration could one day see the web being utilised to help manage the planet. What is exciting is that people are now building new social systems, new systems of review and new systems of governance.