Inventor sees Web changing science, democracy

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Title	Inventor sees Web changing science, democracy
Date	2008/06/12
Source	Seattle Times
Link	http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004472117_webfuture12.html
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Author	Associated Press
Location	Troy, NY
Topic	Web, Democracy
Relation	Tetherless World Grand Opening; Tim Berners-Lee;

TROY, N.Y. — The British scientist who invented the World Wide Web said Wednesday that online-social systems could change the way science and even democratic government is conducted.

Tim Berners-Lee made the comments as a Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute symposium launched an academic center devoted to Web science called the Tetherless World Research Constellation.

In a keynote address, Berners-Lee sketched out a vision of the Web with more computing power, more pages and higher bandwidth that will be displayed on more portable devices with better displays...(Complete Story)