The Next Web - Robert Cailliau: the "other" creator of the WWW

Very entertaining presentation from the second grand old man of the Internet: Robert Cailliau.
They guy was all over the place in his presentation, but here are eight of the main highlights:

1. The WWW was basically a spin-off of the Large Hadron Collider. This project is so huge and took so much collaboration that you needed something like the internet to build it…
2. The original web browser developed by Cailliau and Tim Berners Lee was much easier to use than present day browsers (and it even worked like a Wiki-style publishing tool as well – Reading and Writing was actually indistinguishable)
3. Today there are only two acceptable browsers: Firefox and Safari – although the Safari browser on the iPad is really horrible (says Cailliau – not me!)
4. The Internet has given us a lot of freedom, but with freedom comes responsibility, and we haven’t worked that much on this part.
5. We need to get rid of the awful Author, Reader, Advertiser triangle. We need more reliable payment systems on the Internet to get rid of this triangle. Will Mobile provide this opportunity, or is this business already infested with sharks as well???
6. Social networks are fine (although Cailliau doesn’t use them himself) But: where are they? Who are they? What do they do with my data. You can get in but you cannot get out!
7. We need more peer to peer style social networks, where people actually own their own data instead of entrusting their data with large unknown and unreachable companies.
8. We are running the planet towards over-exhaustion, and we have a naïve belief that technology is going to save us. But we have been talking about AI, fusion power, space travel and genetic modification for so many years and we are still driving around in piston engine cars and living in light bulb enlightened homes.