WWW94: plenary session

initially the plenary session was set up to define the ten most important future directions for the World Wide Web. but what i had expected to become a discussion turned out to be a number of statements from people who had organized this conference or have a leading role on the web. this was perhaps because of the large audience.

the following issues have been considered important (however there is no order of importance in this list):

providing tools to help people to find the information they are looking for fast and easy
providing mechanisms to allow operations being performed asynchronous to increase the overall performance
find solutions to the resource location problems
collaboration of people working on the web, especially collaboration between the educational institutes and the commercial organizations
research on three dimensional documents
pros and cons of commercialization of the web (money versus freedom)
integration of multimedia (sound, video-clips, access for disabled people a.s.o.)
increasing wide spread of the web, a guy said: "the web will become more important than fax ..."
WWW everywhere, WWW on hand held computers
providing user assistance

from the audience came a very important comment, which i personally think is one of the most important issues:

standardization and maintainability

plenary_session / 13-jun-94 (ra) / reto ambühler

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