Unthinkable Things #6: Free our data

If government and and business continue to unlock data in the way Tim Berners-Lee has recently called for, we believe we will benefit from it in ways currently unthinkable.

The Linking Open Data dataset cloud by Richard Cyganiak. Available under a CC-BY-SA license

This TED video, in which the inventor of the world wide web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee makes the demand for "raw data now" is essential viewing for those of us trying to grapple with the fabulous implications of linked data and the semantic web which is dawning at last after two decades of gestation.