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One Way To Think About The Magnitude Of The Changes To Come Is To Think About How You Went About Your Business Before Powerful Web Search Engines. You Probably Wouldn't Have Imagined That A World Of Answers Would Be Available To You In Under A Second. The Next Set Of Advances Will Have An Different Effect, But Similar In Magnitude.

-Tim Berners-Lee

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One Way To Think About The Magnitude

Tim Berners-Lee

One Way To Think About The Magnitude Of The Changes To Come Is To Think About How You Went About Your Business Before Powerful Web Search Engines. You Probably Wouldn't Have Imagined That A World Of Answers Would Be Available To You In Under A Second. The Next Set Of Advances Will Have An Different Effect, But Similar In Magnitude.

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