Tim Berners-Lee would like to see the Web becoming a repository of “partly formed ideas” that could eventually assist in solving some of humanity’s larger problems, by forming a “trail of thinking”, that people could progressively contribute thoughts to until, through collective thinking, a solution emerges.

It is an idea he refers to as “creative connectivity”.

“Now just suppose, given that we have those huge problems out there to solve in health care, [such as] looking for a cure for AIDS or cancer, that part of the answer might be in my brain and another part might be in somebody else’s brain. So how can we make the Web a substrate so that all those half-formed ideas out there [are connected]?” In the future, the Web should be able to connect people’s ideas in such a way that one person could store his partly formed ideas and leave a trail of his thinking for other people trying to solve the same problem, Berners-Lee said.