Technology is not your enemy

Some years ago I had the immense honour to dine and sit next to Robert Cailliau, co-inventor of the World Wide Web with Tim Burners-Lee, following one of his conferences about the creation of one of the world’s wonders. He declares that he “came out of that initial project [www] with a vision: give everyone a keyboard and screen, link them through the CERN–wide network, and the benefits would be huge” (Cailliau, 2008). Well, we can barely disagree with the last part of his quote, as we can regard for certain that the benefits of the World Wide Web are tremendous.

Nevertheless some pessimists consider it ill-fated and forecast its death by the end of 2008 (pretty close isnt’ it?), while others give previsions of enormous importance on our lives (Kelly, 2008). This last video is astounding ad I strongly recommend that you have a look at it.

courtesy: www.opte.org

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