The World Wide Web is truly astounding. It has changed the way we
interact, learn and innovate. It is the largest sociotechnical
system humankind has created and is advancing at a pace that leaves
most in awe. It is an unavoidable fact that the future of the world
is now inextricably linked to the future of the Web. Almost every
day it appears to change, to get better and increase its hold on
us. For all this we are starting to see underlying stability
emerge. The way that Web sites rank in terms of popularity, for
example, appears to follow laws with which we are familiar. What is
fascinating is that these laws were first discovered, not in fields
like computer science or information technology, but in what we
regard as more fundamental disciplines like biology, physics and
mathematics. Consequently the Web, although synthetic at its
surface, seems to be quite 'natural' deeper down, and one of the
driving aims of the new field of Web Science is to discover how far
down such 'naturalness' goes. If the Web is natural to its core,
that raises some fundamental questions. It forces us, for example,
to ask if the central properties of the Web might be more elemental
than the truths we cling to from our understandings of the physical
world. In essence, it demands that we question the very nature of
information. Understanding Information and Computation is about
such questions and one possible route to potentially mind-blowing
answers.
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