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Added: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 11:59 GMT 12:59 UK

Reliable broadband speeds at affordable prices. A watertight ban on government monitoring, recording and general interference. The end to vile fat cat music, film, television and book industries charging exactly the same for a virtual copy of their product as for a hard copy. Global television and film, instead of forcing people to break the law or watch their favourite programmes or films months after everyone else. Simultaneous cinema/streaming film release. Geeks respected in their own right!

Rachel, Brighton

Added: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 11:55 GMT 12:55 UK

Short term problems with the underlying Internet are technical ones. The internet is increasingly being used for streaming data, which it was never intended to do. Ultimately, somebody has to pay for the technology, which may put free access at risk.

Spam, which is wasteful and often dangerous, is a completely avoidable problem with better protocols, however the is no mechanism to make such a switch. It seems email as we know it will die, and maybe something better will rise from the flames

Chris, Berks

Added: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 11:34 GMT 12:34 UK

I'd like to see true Net Neutrality, and keep the web free from government control.

It's the only place to be free and uncensored, let's keep it that way.

Simon Egan, Eeter

Added: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 11:18 GMT 12:18 UK

I think it should give equal opportunity to all people all over the world to work and not have to be banned because their IP address does not qualify (as if there's the new IP discrimination thing). Jobs that are considered low-paying somewhere are VERY WELL PAYING elsewhere. If the net, with all its grace fails to bridge and reconcile this gap, it ceases to be the giant we all label it to be.

Dawit, Addis Ababa

Added: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 11:03 GMT 12:03 UK

In the short term? The big change will be the UI, as the web becomes indistinguishable from the desktop and more and more things move into the cloud.

In the long term? P2P DNS, mesh networks, government control neutralized via everything becoming encrypted, and eventually a great place to make 5-minute backups of your current brain state so that if you die, yourself from about 5 minutes ago can be rebooted into a new body.

Kevin

Added: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 10:51 GMT 11:51 UK

Yes we would like to see the applications that can be built on web. Yes, ofcourse the internet is absolutely improved and improving the quality of life, only it is depend upon user how he want to utilize this resource.For me for next future of web would be closer to virtual reality sort of web browsing. If the internet access and cost is reduced at minimal level then obiviousely users will increase more and more and awareness will spred out on global level, that create necessity for all users

Rajesh Parsekar, Phuket

Added: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 10:47 GMT 11:47 UK

The web sems to have a very bright future. If one more feature is added to the web called 'truth screener' then it would become the most useful device. Now, any body can add anything on web, whether truthful or false, If a "truth Screener, is addede, it would become really useful for everyone.

Shazib Khan, Lahore, Pakistan

Added: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 10:11 GMT 11:11 UK

First of all i have found myself in writing,this public and live device fits my predispositions/if there were no internet i should not do it/;free and easy i place my stories online to reach every man on the globe.Besides i got an avocation,have free access to all informations regard to my necessary data to write/wikipedia to read Author's biographies,Gutenberg with free ebooks downloading,and similar/Through interaction of writing/reading lots of online stuff i improved my English/met people

Slavica Todorovic, Jagodina, Serbia and Montenegro

Added: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 09:58 GMT 10:58 UK

As much as I'm still fascinated by aeroplanes , the internet is so impressive just the same . The problem with the www lies with the abusers who use their skills for illegal ends.
Just came to my mind a certain thought ; Why can't the web be divided into several stations . One for science , one for media , one for stock exchange, one for debates and opinions and messageboards, and so on. Let each one have his preference.

Mike Stami

Added: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 09:31 GMT 10:31 UK

3 possible futures. In one, the "Managed Web", the Internet is a "safe, controlled and monitored" resource, where oppinion, free-speech and freedom of religion are under constant scrutiny. The second, the "Last Empire" uncharted, unregulated, unmanaged war-zone where Virtual Kings battle for Market Share. The third "Awakening", where technological integration enables communication, understanding and common-interests to maintain focus and resist division, hate and stereotyping. Or maybe all 3?

[Mr-Happy]

Added: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 09:07 GMT 10:07 UK

Thanks a lot for Tim Berners Lee, for giving me an opportunity to comment here in BBC through world wide web.

Has the internet improved quality of life?
Mostly YES and for some NO.
It depends on the usage of user.Live sword its a powerful tool.You can use WWW for improving your life.

The webs feature will be as beautiful as heaven.Let enjoy it :)

RAMesh Kumar SS, Chennai, India

Added: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 08:58 GMT 09:58 UK

While you have to be connected directly to a network, you are under the control of that network. This means that centralised control is inevitable for any managed network. The Internet has already come under the control of large corporates where every web page, every email and every instant message is logged and monitored. That information is available to governments as they require.

The only solution to this is an adhoc store and forward network which doesn't depend on centralised control.

Colin Smith, Berlin

Added: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 08:48 GMT 09:48 UK

It should be totally free.

Jay, Canada

Added: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 08:41 GMT 09:41 UK

this switch board should not have private networks and ought to be more open.governments should not interfere with it.

david lulasa, tambua village,hamisi,kenya

Added: Thursday, 11 June, 2009, 08:36 GMT 09:36 UK

What I hope the future will be:
No more geo-location restrictions on content.

This isn't just aimed at some frustrating recent developments on the bbc web site, but on so many websites these days.

Its gettng to the stage where 50% of the links i click on end up being unavailable. We would never have accepted this with written web content, but somehow its ok for video content.

Otherwise we are essentially heading towards a bunch of national-webs. I thought we were past that...

tim, tokyo