Tim Berners-Lee Quotes
It's difficult to imagine the power that you're going to have when so many different sorts of data are available.
Berners-Lee, Tim. "The Next Web." TED, Feb. 2009.
More and more scientific researchers and technologists were using research tools that they did not fully understand and sometimes did not understand at all.
Here is an example of the mental set of NSA regarding electronically capturing information. It is easy to see why the agency got into a position where they were castigated by groups throughout America for the large scale gathering of even Private communications.
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is a Professorial Fellow of Computer Science at the University of Oxford and a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Berners-Lee proposed an information management system on 12 March 1989, then implemented the first successful communication between a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet in mid-November.