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...huge,” But when an audience member questioned the potential dangers of bringing more data into the public domain, Berners-Lee replied that it would be necessary to ensure that new technology does not violate personal privacy. “We want the technology to be the Lego for a nice world, a world we want to live in,” he said. —Staff writer Athena Y. Jiang can be reached at ajiang@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Web Inventor Honored | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

...container construction is getting even bigger. In the west London suburb of Uxbridge, a 120-room Travelodge hotel is being built out of 87 steel crates, stacked and snapped together Lego-like, into two nine-story towers. When construction is finished in March (the hotel opens in June), its radical construction technology will be hidden behind a more orthodox brick and concrete exterior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contain Yourself | 2/6/2008 | See Source »

...Number of years since Lego building bricks first hit store shelves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...Number of Lego sets sold every second by retailers worldwide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Numbers | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...special-edition of its 1950s-style Town Plan set with three gold bricks, and a worldwide building contest with a grand finale at Legoland Billund. And for most Google users - itself a website which keeps building and growing in size - the homepage spelling of the company name in Lego blocks Monday will come across as just another of the web giant's quirks. But for the millions who grew up on the brick - and the millions more still fitting them together - that lunchtime visit to the patent office proved priceless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lego Celebrates 50 Years of Building | 1/28/2008 | See Source »

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