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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It
SAN FRANCISCO Twenty-seven years ago, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web as a way for scientists to easily find information. It has since become the worlds most powerful medium for knowledge, communications and commerce but that doesnt mean Mr. Berners-Lee is happy with all of the consequences.
It controls what people see, creates mechanisms for how people interact, he said of the modern day web. Its been great, but spying, blocking sites, repurposing peoples content, taking you to the wrong websites that completely undermines the spirit of helping people create.
So on Tuesday, Mr. Berners-Lee gathered in San Francisco with other top computer scientists including Brewster Kahle, head of the nonprofit Internet Archive and an internet activist to discuss a new phase for the web.
Today, the World Wide Web has become a system that is often subject to control by governments and corporations. Countries like China can block certain web pages from their citizens, and cloud services like Amazon Web Services hold powerful sway. So what might happen, the computer scientists posited, if they could harness newer technologies like the software used for digital currencies, or the technology of peer-to-peer music sharing to create a more decentralized web with more privacy, less government and corporate control, and a level of permanence and reliability?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/technology/the-webs-creator-looks-to-reinvent-it.html
It controls what people see, creates mechanisms for how people interact, he said of the modern day web. Its been great, but spying, blocking sites, repurposing peoples content, taking you to the wrong websites that completely undermines the spirit of helping people create.
So on Tuesday, Mr. Berners-Lee gathered in San Francisco with other top computer scientists including Brewster Kahle, head of the nonprofit Internet Archive and an internet activist to discuss a new phase for the web.
Today, the World Wide Web has become a system that is often subject to control by governments and corporations. Countries like China can block certain web pages from their citizens, and cloud services like Amazon Web Services hold powerful sway. So what might happen, the computer scientists posited, if they could harness newer technologies like the software used for digital currencies, or the technology of peer-to-peer music sharing to create a more decentralized web with more privacy, less government and corporate control, and a level of permanence and reliability?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/technology/the-webs-creator-looks-to-reinvent-it.html
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The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It (Original Post)
SecularMotion
Jun 2016
OP
Well darn... I was excited to see what President Gore had in store for us.
ChisolmTrailDem
Jun 2016
#1
What the fuck does it say, Blue_Adept? What does it say that's not good?? What are...
ChisolmTrailDem
Jun 2016
#5
This shit right here is why it's increasingly hard for me to keep my composure around here...
ChisolmTrailDem
Jun 2016
#6
Kickin' because I'm still curious as to how my comment "says oh so much, none of it good" ... nt
ChisolmTrailDem
Jun 2016
#7
That's right, I should get an apology. But, as you can see, none is forthcoming. Says...
ChisolmTrailDem
Jun 2016
#11
It's been "privatized", what should one expect from that but exploitation for profit? nt
bemildred
Jun 2016
#10
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)1. Well darn... I was excited to see what President Gore had in store for us.
Who is this Tim Berners-Lee guy?
Blue_Adept
(6,399 posts)2. Your rightwing cliche says oh so much
None of it good, of course.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)3. Oh for fucks sake, lighten up.
That's become an ironic joke that has long since transcended it's origins as a RW talking point, Hell, in the computer strategy game Civilization 4 the icon for the internet technology is a picture of Al Gore.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)4. Are you fucking shitting me??? nt
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)5. What the fuck does it say, Blue_Adept? What does it say that's not good?? What are...
...you implying about me, Blue_Adept?
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)6. This shit right here is why it's increasingly hard for me to keep my composure around here...
...for fuck sake!
What a bunch of stinking bullshit!
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)7. Kickin' because I'm still curious as to how my comment "says oh so much, none of it good" ... nt
hunter
(38,312 posts)8. Apologize and move on... it doesn't cost a thing.
This is a serious issue.
ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)11. That's right, I should get an apology. But, as you can see, none is forthcoming. Says...
...oh so much, none of it good.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)9. That sounds a lot like the already-existing *deep web*
Deep web
The deep web, invisible web, or hidden web are parts of the World Wide Web whose contents are not indexed by standard search engines for any reason. The deep web is opposite to the surface web.
The deep web includes many very common uses such as web mail, online banking but also paid for services with a paywall such as video on demand, and many more.
Computer scientist Mike Bergman is credited with coining the term deep web in 2000 as a search indexing term.
The deep web, invisible web, or hidden web are parts of the World Wide Web whose contents are not indexed by standard search engines for any reason. The deep web is opposite to the surface web.
The deep web includes many very common uses such as web mail, online banking but also paid for services with a paywall such as video on demand, and many more.
Computer scientist Mike Bergman is credited with coining the term deep web in 2000 as a search indexing term.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)10. It's been "privatized", what should one expect from that but exploitation for profit? nt