The World Wide Web is truly astounding. If the Web is natural to its core, that raises some fundamental questions. It forces us, for example, to ask if the central properties of the Web might be more elemental than the truths we cling to from our understandings of the physical world. This book is about such questions.
'Phil Tetlow was not only one of the world's first Web Scientists, but he takes great pleasure in pushing hard on just about every boundary within reach. His ideas are both fresh and profound and I am really pleased to see a work from him that will keep us all thinking. It is bound to be controversial, but then what is science without controversy?' Professor Dame Wendy Hall DBE FRS FREng 'Phil enjoys challenging current thinking. He is an engaging and thoughtful teacher' - Paul Martynenko, Vice President & Technical Executive, IBM Europe