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title: "Future of the Web Debate – Starts in 2 Hours!"
date: 2008-06-11
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2008"
    url: "/tag/2008.md"
---

# Future of the Web Debate – Starts in 2 Hours!

![](https://web.archive.org/web/20081223005210im_/http://c.openx.org/tw-banner2.jpg)ReadWriteWeb is [the exclusive Media Partner](https://web.archive.org/web/20081223005210/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/interactive_debate_on_web_future.php) for [an interactive debate on the future of the Web](https://web.archive.org/web/20081223005210/http://tw.rpi.edu/launch/), which kicks off in a couple of hours time. The debate features Tim Berners-Lee and will be webcast live. You can watch the debate and submit questions – including while it is happening – by [clicking here](https://web.archive.org/web/20081223005210/http://tw.rpi.edu/launch/). Semantic Web and Net Neutrality remain the most popular topics, so it should be fun. The event is being [webcast live here](https://web.archive.org/web/20081223005210/http://mediasite.itops.rpi.edu/Mediasite4/Viewer/?peid=f63d1d6961594ccaadd3eb2b2749eca6) (note: Silverlight required).

**Update: [Live Blogging Future of the Web Debate](https://web.archive.org/web/20081223005210/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/live_blogging_future_of_the_web_debate.php)**

From the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute website:

> On June 11, 2008, leading authorities on the World Wide Web will gather at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for an old-fashioned debate with a social media twist. The questions for discussion will be shaped and selected by the collective wisdom of Web users from around the world.
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> After delivering a keynote address, Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web, will join a panel of experts from academia and industry for a public discussion about the Web’s future.
> 
> The content of the debate will be collaboratively created by Web users, who can submit questions and promote them through a user-based ranking system, similar to the community-based news site Digg. The most popular questions will drive the discussion at the June 11 debate.
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> The public debate, which will be streamed live via an interactive Webcast, is part of a daylong event to celebrate the launch of the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer — a new academic center devoted to the emerging field of Web Science.

This event is a chance to discuss and argue about where the Web is headed. Berners-Lee’s keynote is at 2:45 p.m. EST and the debate starts at 3:45 p.m. EST. [Click here to check it out!](https://web.archive.org/web/20081223005210/http://tw.rpi.edu/launch/)

**Update: [Live Blogging Future of the Web Debate](https://web.archive.org/web/20081223005210/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/live_blogging_future_of_the_web_debate.php)**

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/future_of_the_web_debate_starts_soon.php))*