Rating:  - Others get rich but Tim Berners-Lee deserves to be famous
The world (us) is not recognizing enough Tim Berners-Lee's contribution, extraordinary insight, and relentless behind the scene efforts. If one has any doubt that a few individuals with a vision and a participative belief system can change the world, this book is a Must Read. The first part of the book is a say-it-as-it-is account of how Tim's vision and belief system (global connectivity, keep it simple, open-source, no control, etc.) brought the WorldWideWeb into being. The last part of the book will leave you with the impression that we're just at the beginnimng of the journey and that there is much more in Tim's vision than today's web. Our computers are the neurons of a mega-super-global brain under construction. For most tasks, these neurons still need us to decide what to do. If Tim's vision is being implemented, in a few years (5-10?) these "neurons" will act independantly, decide by themselves what to do, understand and make sense of the vast amount of information that they will have collected. When he presents that vison, TBL says "I get the same distant look in people's eyes as I did in 1989 when I tried to explain how global Hyprerttext would work." That didn't stop him then. Buy this book and support his efforts to make the web OUR common intuitive brain.
Rating: - Way to go!
Weaving the Web is a book written by the Web's creator "Tim Berners Lee". The book is divided in three main part. The evolution of the Web, the moral behind the Web, and the future of the Web. The special thing about the book is that you can read it as a technical book, and you can read it as a moral book. After reading some pages in the book, i had chosen to read it morally.
The book has only 209 pages, but you learn very much about the Web by reading it. I think it should be morally obliged for every web creator, and everyone that concerns the Web, to read the book. In the book he speaks about how the Web evolved, what its potential is, and what his personal vision about the Web is. It's a amusing book to read in that way. The moral behind the Web.
Rating: - One man with a vision can change everything
This book is the story of Berners-Lee's invention of the web - the single biggest change any one individual has made in modern times - his crucial defense of the idea of it being a decentralized universal resource owned by no one, and his vision for where it should go in the future. It should be required reading for everyone. (But I refuse to call URL's URI's... you lost that battle Tim, give it up)
Rating:  - If you build it ....
Excellent review of the history of the Web. The book is most helpful however when looking at Berner-Lees' vision of what the Web can be and why we want to get there.
Rating: - Not just the past
The book is pretty easy and fun to read. I have a couple of reservations about the reviews that I have read. First, non-techies need to be aware that the World Wide Web is not the entire Internet. It is a major and important part of what we think of as the on-line experience but there is no sense of how the communications structure began or has evolved. Second, the later part of the book lays out a vision of where Tim would like the web to evolve to. This is valuable reading for entrepreneurs trying to be ahead of the curve for future ebusiness as well as thought provoking for anyone interested.
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