I must have missed this on LBN.
Tim Berners-Lee is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the web.
2007-03-01: Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Director, testified on the future of the World Wide Web before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, Committee on Energy & Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, on 1 March. Chairman Edward Markey invited Berners-Lee as the sole witness for the first in a series on the Digital Future of the United States.
This story was
http://www.w3.org/News/2007#item35">originally reported on the W3.org site and the full text can be found at
http://dig.csail.mit.edu/2007/03/01-ushouse-future-of-the-web.html">this link and a streaming WMP web-cast is also available at
http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/energycommerce/030107.ti.hrgwww.wvx">this link.
It's worth a browse just to get his opinion on where the web could go in the future. He has some interesting points about the way that the web is run and the decentralised nature of its administration.