Tim Berners-Lee: The Web is threatened by Google and Facebook
As we can read on Scientific American Magazine article “Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality” by inventor of the World Wide Web (see 2nd row on the top 1989) – Tim Berners-Lee: The Web is threatened!
Conclustions of his opinions are that social networking sites are hermetic ecosystems which are closing down and bund users out from Internet. By using such portals we isolating from other content. Domination of Google and Facebook is eliminating and pushing down any other competition. With new generations rooting their knowledge in search engines, and social activity in social networking sites, such dependance on one leading monopolist can lead to modern slavery. What would you do if the only point where you can turn into for knowledge is Google and to socialize you only can do Facebook. Where esle would you go?
If the basic freedom and openness of the Web are allowed to thrive, Berners-Lee sees a future with great potential respect for “basic human values.”
“The goal of the Web is to serve humanity,” he wrote.” We build it now so that those who come to it later will be able to create things that we cannot ourselves imagine.”
creators‘ fear of their creations?
source: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=long-live-the-web
That brought one thought into my attention, we all know the story of united people? Speaking same language? This whole globalisation comming from wide reach of Internet, universality of its use etc sparked this silly (or wise) comparison, whether the Internet is the current Tower of Babel for contemporary people?
“They are one people and have one language, and nothing will be withholden from them which they purpose to do”
And so God scattered them upon the face of the Earth, and confused their languages, and they left off building the city, which was called Babel “
Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:5-8)
