“The WorldWideWeb (W3) is a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.”
Tim Berners-Lee
I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.
Tim Berners-Lee
The important thing is the diversity available on the Web.
Tim Berners-Lee
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FRSA (born 8 June 1955 in London) is a British physicist and computer scientist. He is the developer of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and the founder of the World Wide Web. Today, he chairs the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has held a chair at the University of Oxford since 2016.
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The sad thing is that the internet, which should be free and diverse, is only used by pure applications such as Facebook, X, tiktok, instagram and so on, which are the exact opposite of the ideas of the internet. Algorithms controlled by their tech CEOs that deliberately spread hate, agitation, tension and disinformation, and thus no longer serve to provide information without restrictions but are subject to complete control for targeted (we are not sure if we should still call it information) defence. (we are not sure if we should still call it information).
People who get their entire reality from just one of the applications are highly manipulable and controllable for the purposes of the owners of the respective applications.
Thus, the internet has somehow been perverted in a way that was not in the sense of the inventor.
Certain ethical and moral principles have effectively been abolished today, which will ultimately contribute to the brutalisation of the internet.
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We can't blame the technology when we make mistakes.
Tim Berners-Lee
Those who rule data will rule the entire world.
Masayoshi Son
The digital world influences the analogue world, especially when it comes to the interest in where consumers, the voting cattle, should be steered.
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