The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It

[SecularMotion]

SAN FRANCISCO — Twenty-seven years ago, Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web as a way for scientists to easily find information. It has since become the world’s most powerful medium for knowledge, communications and commerce — but that doesn’t mean Mr. Berners-Lee is happy with all of the consequences.

“It controls what people see, creates mechanisms for how people interact,” he said of the modern day web. “It’s been great, but spying, blocking sites, repurposing people’s content, taking you to the wrong websites — that completely undermines the spirit of helping people create.”

So on Tuesday, Mr. Berners-Lee gathered in San Francisco with other top computer scientists — including Brewster Kahle, head of the nonprofit Internet Archive and an internet activist — to discuss a new phase for the web.

Today, the World Wide Web has become a system that is often subject to control by governments and corporations. Countries like China can block certain web pages from their citizens, and cloud services like Amazon Web Services hold powerful sway. So what might happen, the computer scientists posited, if they could harness newer technologies — like the software used for digital currencies, or the technology of peer-to-peer music sharing — to create a more decentralized web with more privacy, less government and corporate control, and a level of permanence and reliability?

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/technology/the-webs-creator-looks-to-reinvent-it.html

[ChisolmTrailDem]

1. Well darn... I was excited to see what President Gore had in store for us.

Who is this Tim Berners-Lee guy?

[Blue_Adept]

2. Your rightwing cliche says oh so much

None of it good, of course.

[Odin2005]

3. Oh for fucks sake, lighten up.

That's become an ironic joke that has long since transcended it's origins as a RW talking point, Hell, in the computer strategy game Civilization 4 the icon for the internet technology is a picture of Al Gore.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

4. Are you fucking shitting me??? nt

[ChisolmTrailDem]

5. What the fuck does it say, Blue_Adept? What does it say that's not good?? What are...

...you implying about me, Blue_Adept?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

6. This shit right here is why it's increasingly hard for me to keep my composure around here...

...for fuck sake!

What a bunch of stinking bullshit!

[ChisolmTrailDem]

7. Kickin' because I'm still curious as to how my comment "says oh so much, none of it good" ... nt

[hunter]

8. Apologize and move on... it doesn't cost a thing.

This is a serious issue.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

11. That's right, I should get an apology. But, as you can see, none is forthcoming. Says...

...oh so much, none of it good.

[kentauros]

9. That sounds a lot like the already-existing *deep web*

Deep web

The deep web, invisible web, or hidden web are parts of the World Wide Web whose contents are not indexed by standard search engines for any reason. The deep web is opposite to the surface web.

The deep web includes many very common uses such as web mail, online banking but also paid for services with a paywall such as video on demand, and many more.

Computer scientist Mike Bergman is credited with coining the term deep web in 2000 as a search indexing term.

[bemildred]

10. It's been "privatized", what should one expect from that but exploitation for profit? nt