By Steve Lohr October 12, 2009 3:31 pm October 12, 2009 3:31 pm Any conversation with Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Web’s bedrock software standards, tends to be fast-paced and nonlinear. When he worked at the CERN physics laboratory in Geneva, colleagues tried to get him to speak French instead of English, in hopes of slowing him down. No surprise, then, that a half-hour dialogue with Mr. B
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