Tim Berners Lee said the future of the Internet will be far more significant than its past and present, and its influence will grow as users and online information increase. He said the Web will expand fastest in developing countries thanks to mobile phones. He predicted semantic web will replace search engines and social networks, uniting all data and changing how people work online.

"The future of the Internet is far more significant than its past and present." - such a statement was made by the founder of the "world wide web," Tim Berners-Lee, at a seminar dedicated to the future of the Web. According to him, the Internet's influence will become much more noticeable when more information and more users appear online.
Tim Berners-Lee, together with Robert Cailliau and staff of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), invented the "world wide web" in 1989. At first, it was intended to facilitate the exchange of information between groups of researchers conducting large experiments on the LEP collider. In 1991, Berners-Lee created the first website. In 1994, there were already 500 websites on the Internet, and today their number exceeds 80 million.
Currently, 23% of the world's population regularly uses the Internet, and most of them are residents of developed countries. By comparison, only 5% of Africans go online. However, both of these figures will grow, especially in "third world" countries, where users will access the Web via mobile phones rather than PCs. And the larger the Internet audience becomes, the faster new technologies will develop. In addition, the Web will help find ways to solve many global problems.
According to Tim Berners-Lee's forecast, the Google search engine and social networks like Facebook and MySpace will be displaced by the Internet of the future. By the Internet of the future, Lee means the semantic web, whose development he began in 2004 and which will unite all kinds of data.
Sir Tim called Google "a big pile" of data. And about Facebook, he noted that it will soon become just one type of community, and that although people really like such connections now, soon everyone will realize that there are many other things that can be brought together through the network.