Berners-Lee: World Finally Realizes The Web Belongs To No One(wired.com)
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Berners-Lee: World Finally Realizes The Web Belongs To No One
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/06/sir-tim-berners-lee/
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I'm surprised the article makes no mention of the semantic web, a brain-child of his that he's been promoting and working on almost exclusively for the past several years. It would be the solution to the "closed-data" problem that the article talks about.
He's right that the Web belongs to no one, but the politicians of the world, for the most part, clearly still don't agree nor believe that.
It's too big of a single target to not constantly be the object of power grabs. So much of what we do, say, and transact now flows over the Internet or Web. The politicians will literally never stop pursuing legislation for controlling information systems of all sorts. If they have to do it at the edges first, then they will, that's how they always make power grabs when big grabs fail.
Eternal vigilance is the price to be paid to keep the Web free.
It's too big of a single target to not constantly be the object of power grabs. So much of what we do, say, and transact now flows over the Internet or Web. The politicians will literally never stop pursuing legislation for controlling information systems of all sorts. If they have to do it at the edges first, then they will, that's how they always make power grabs when big grabs fail.
Eternal vigilance is the price to be paid to keep the Web free.