“The British scientist who developed the World Wide Web warns that if left to develop unchecked, the internet could be consumed by ‘misinformation and undemocratic forces,” The Associated Press reports.
AP reports, “Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist who is credited with creating the internet, said in an interview with the BBC today that the way the web is used should be examined by a broad spectrum of experts.”
“Berners-Lee wants to convene scientists from various disciplines – including biology, political science and sociology – to study the web and the way it affects society,” AP reports. “His comments came a day after an internet monitoring company announced that the number of websites had surpassed the 100 million mark. He first proposed the web while developing ways to control computers remotely at CERN, the Geneva-based European Organisation for Nuclear Research, in 1989.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Macaday” for the heads up.]
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Inventor of World Wide Web uses Apple PowerBook, Mac OS X, and Safari browser – September 23, 2003
Al Gore created the internet….duh. That is what AL said.
Let George decide on the content! That would make the world a much safer and better place.
Ray, the internet is not the same thing as the World Wide Web. Duh.
Tim Berners-Lee did not invent the Internet. He developed HTTP…. The Internet was around long before Lee got around to HTTP
According to our President, if one of the “Internets” goes out, we can use one of the other “Internets”.
Right???
Who cares…the inventor of ‘something or other’ and a very cool guy at that – uses a Mac! What else?
MDN is a very good example of what he is talking about. The site is full of misinformation. (and ads).
Yeah, this article needs to get its facts straight: Berners-Lee came up with the http spec, _not_ the internet, which has been around since the late 60s and DARPA-net. Oops!
Still, the guy is very cool and very right that folks should at least take a look at where the ‘net is heading.
Isn’t the internet just a series of tubes?
Daddy: Nobody said Berners-Lee invented the Internet. He did however invent the World Wide Web, which is how most people access the internet other than email.
The internets is an important tool for to help our children to readin’, and writin’.
It makes ’em plenty smart.
Like our troops. Plenty smart. And plenty brave. (Actual quote from my rally in Georgia yesterday, where we lied about John Kerry’s statement).
See what my schoolin’ done for me?
I got C’s. Done gone to Yale.
You are a clueless git. Yes the internet is comprised of a web of cross-linked redundant networks so if one goes out the packets are automatically routed around it.
We found out in Iraq just how resilient the system is in time of war (which was really not much of a surprise as it was originally for conceived and implemented as a Military/Contractor/Edu-research conduit by ARPA/DARPA.)
What is it with you bush hating waco liberal leftists? Does you hatred require you to check your brains at the door? Let it go. Bush has already been elected twice and has nearly served his time as president (whether you liked it or not) Spewing your hatred everywhere does nothing. Focus your energy on something useful
Oh, and check your facts before posting nonsense.
“What is it with you bush hating waco liberal leftists? “
Well, after eight years of rabid Clinton hating from the nutjob Right… we figured turnabout was fair play. As for the “hate,” well, we learned from the best: Coulter, Hannity, Rush, Savage, Ingraham, O’Reilly…
BTW, Berners-Lee created the WWW on a Next computer, I think. Ol’ Stevie J. should be proud…
No big surprise. These Macs are just overgrown NExT machines (or shrunken? Hmm.), so of course Sir Tim would keep on using one. The http spec was written on a NExT at CERN. It’s there in the CERN museum.
Jobs sure makes life easier for people who want to do things right.
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Please… every story doesn’t need to be instilled with political vitrial. Stick to the subject.
Cubert –
That’s right. And if we need to find one of the other internets, we can use The Google.
Good picture. good advertising for Apple worldwide.
don’t know if I agree with control.
It would be nice if they could remove websites that show people being tortured or killed.
And maybe Cubert, too.
But then, that starts the slippery slope stuff.
Leave the internet alone. It is up to the individual to determine if what they read is real or not. It isn’t like one web site is the sole authority on anything.
The beauty of the internet is the democratization of information. Information flow is no longer controlled by the media or the government. There are good examples of how the media has tried to influence the public and/or increase revenue with ‘doctored’ reporting. Ask Dan Rather and Reuters how that worked out for them.
Leave the ‘net alone.
I used to say “stay the course”. (There are roughly 25-30 video clips, go ahead and search on “The Google”).
Then I said “this was never about stay the course”.
I am a flip-flopper.
I’m a liberal and I’ve never been to Waco.
Unless you mean wacko.
Wacko by which you presumably mean crazy, by which you presumably mean believing that God talks to you and tells you to do things or believing that the world is only around 6000 years old. Or presumably believing that everything in Iraq is peachy. Or – and here’s a real clincher – believing that Republicans will still control the House come next Wednesday.
“Just back off”.
Jeff: Isn’t the internet just a series of tubes?
Quite right. It is nothing at all like a truck.
On a related note, the tubes to MDN have become quite clogged recently.
I luv my Nextintosh
“Luke, you’re going to find that many of the truths we cling to, depend greatly on our own point of view.”
@Yo’ Cubert,
My post was a joke ripping on G.W. Bush. Others seem to have gotten it, though – just not you.