{"id":4794,"date":"2012-09-09T20:45:04","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T02:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2012-09-09T20:45:04","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T02:45:04","slug":"lunch-with-tim-berners-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4794","title":{"rendered":"Lunch with Tim Berners-Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/b022ff6c-f673-11e1-9fff-00144feabdc0.html#axzz25wFFjU50\">Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>He continues: \u201cI think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they\u2019ve got a wonderful long-term plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But is there enough big academic innovation going on, I ask, or do Silicon Valley wannabes now just dream of an Instagram-style fast $1bn from creating applications that make digital snaps look like their parents\u2019 Polaroids and selling them to Facebook?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m biased to think that there hasn\u2019t been enough. I would have liked to have seen more development around open data,\u201d he replies. Berners-Lee, who has spent years working on the \u201csemantic web\u201d of machine-processable data, is a director of the UK government\u2019s new Open Data Institute, which aims to make more official data available and to train people how to use it to commercial and other ends.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson: He continues: \u201cI think a lot of great software has been written by people who are scratching a short-term itch, something which has been niggling them for ages, but in the back of their mind they\u2019ve got a wonderful long-term plan.\u201d But is there enough big academic innovation going on, I ask, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}