The incredible unshrinkable Internet

In a speech on the future of the Web delivered in Finland on Thursday, Internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee told his audience that poor page design is one of the main reasons the mobile Internet (at least as the vendors have envisioned it) hasn’t transpired. “Web designers have learned to design for the visually impaired and for other people,” he said. “They will learn in a few years how to make Web sites available for people with mobile devices, too.”

You have to wonder what’s taking so long. My best explanation is that too many companies believe that the mobile Internet would simply be an extension of the original, not seeming to understand that it’s a completely different surfing experience.