Sir Tim Berners-Lee OM

Have you ever heard of Sir Tim Berners-Lee? He received the Order of Merit from the Queen on Wednesday. What for? He only invented the World Wide Web! His system to organise, link and browse pages on the net has transformed human communications (and crime) after a mere 16 years! Imagine life without blogging. Gasp! But it's still the same old story: a Brit. gives a brilliant idea to the world and the Yanks make a fortune out of it. When will we learn?