I'm lucky enough to have the opportunity to meet Sir Tim Berners-Lee at lunch today. Anyone got a suggestion for an interesting topic/question

I've got some thoughts but wondering if anyone else has got any great ideas.

For those that don't know, he is credited with inventing the WWW
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

-I'm not sure he'll know the answer to 'What tyres for….'

There were some interesting points of debate in that BBC documentary series, The Virtual Revolution, recently. Maybe ask him how he feels now that three or four major sites, Google, Facebook etc are treating privacy fairly frivolously. That kind of thing…I'm sure when he came up with the idea, he didn't want it to be used like that.

Did you realise that the WWW would unleash Mark Datz in to the wider world?

This Datz fellow seems to really wind you up Flashy. Do you suspect a familiar face behind the name?

Are you happy now that your brainchild has reached it's obvious creative and philanthropic zenith with http://www.webuyanycar.com/?

"Hello Sir, please could you tell me what WWW stands for? it has been confusing me for a while"

Darcy, certainly not winding me up at all, in fact, I find he/she/it to be most amusing!

I don't think it's him, though! 😉

I don't think it's him, though!

I had my suspicions, but on balance, I agree.

"Do you have any other plans for making porn available to a wider audience"

or maybe;

"Given that the web is becoming such a critical part of modern life will we end up in a situation where we the world will be divided into the 'online' and the 'offline' with wealth and power being retained by the former?"

Privacy one is interesting.

I also wondered what his take on people making a living from selling intangible items from online games (Everquest/WOW) and where he saw it heading in the future.

Ask him how he feels about a multi-tiered internet now that the amount of data being demanded by consumers is so high compared to predicted (ie, no one seemed to guess the effect that sites like Youtube and iPlayer have on the infrastructure).

Ask him if he still feels that the http://www.???.com format was the right choice, or does he feel now more than ever that he should have gone down the route of a file directory for addresses.

http://www.google.com

should have been

http://uk/google/search/
http://uk/singletrackworld/chat/

etc etc

that way, you're not really fighting for .com's and .co.uk's

What's his favourite colour? 🙂

ask him about filesharing – was that not one of the cornerstones of the WWW creation?

either way let us know the Q+A's 🙂