In an interview with The Financial Times, World Wide Web founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee, came out swinging at today's Silicon Valley elites, saying most companies are thinking dangerously short-term as the internet becomes a bigger part of everyday life.

"I think there's a lot of concern the web companies are thinking short-term," Berners-Lee said. "They've been taught to look short-term by the dot-com bubble, [it] has made everyone very conscious of short-term returns on investment, and this has trickled down to research funding."

According to Berners-Lee, many internet companies are ignoring what he calls huge risks and missing potentially large opportunities because of short-term thinking. What is missing, he says, are research projects capable of revolutionizing the internet.

While Berners-Lee didn't single out any company by name, he did take a jab at Google, saying the internet giant focuses on rolling out products 18 months after the initial design.

"In general, the attitude a lot of companies have towards research nowadays is [that] they like to see the product in 18 months -- rather than, here are some really big problems, go away and think about them, take some risks, come back with some ideas we don't believe -- the sort of things that triggered big advances in the past," Berners-Lee said.