At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for "raw data now" -- for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up. About Tim Berners-Lee Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He leads the World Wide Web Consortium, overseeing the Web's standards and development.
In this talk, Jonathan Zittrain made proposes that the seemingly lost human kindness has blossomed on the internet. The talk starts with the basic infrastructure of the internet, all the way to the simple but brilliant ideas of information sharing, to explain the act of kindness of human. This differs from ratings on amazon in that it is proactive and conscious actions of internet users who give and pass on favors.