The Shortest Path to the Future Web
The W3C’s motto is “Leading the Web to Its Full Potential.” This seems a reasonable role for it to aspire to, but it raises at least two questions: can any organization actually lead the Web, and what is its full potential? I believe these two questions are tightly interrelated, and as far as any answers are available, it’s the Web itself that offers them.
Clearly, a complete picture of the Web’s full potential should consider its human impact, not least because people are the Web’s most significant components. However, I won’t even

