"The Web has 10 to the power of 11 Web pages. To give you an idea, if you could take the Web and put it into a three-dimensional space the size of someone's brain, it would have more Web pages than the brain has neurons," he added. "We all depend on it and we assume it will work. We wake up in the morning and go online to see the weather and we buy things and we get the news."

And in an interview with Computerworld, Berners-Lee said the Web has changed the lives of most everyone.

"We are better. We are more efficient. We are healthier because of the Web," he said. "When we go to the doctor's now, it's for a second opinion because we've already looked up our symptoms online."

And the British computer scientist and MIT professor told the entire audience that the social nature of the Web -- with sites Facebook and Twitter gaining such massive popularity -- is actually making parties quite boring these days.

He explained that with social networks recommending users friend their friends' friends, there are fewer strangers to meet at our friends' cocktail parties. "If you imagine the connections between you and your friends, your social graph will be a very tightly knotted lump," he added.