"The Web is as much a technical creation as a ," said , who's credited by many with inventing the Web in 1989 and wrote the first Web browser in 1990.

"There's a person making all those links and a person is clicking on those links. You can look at the Web as a technical system but you can also look at it as humanity connected by technology," he added

Berners-Lee talked about the evolution of the Internet Wednesday night in a presentation at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge.

The English computer scientist told the audience that people are increasingly connected to their favorite Web sites and to each other in a world now largely defined by the Web.

"Suddenly the economic system is a very complex system of ," said Berners-Lee, throwing his arms up and screaming.