30 years on from introducing the Web to the World
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Re: 30 years on from introducing the Web to the World
#2> Our vision is for a World Wide Web that is more inclusive, and more respectful of its users: a Web that supports truth better than falsehood, people more than profits, humanity rather than hate.
I support the principles, but I can't give the real implementation a passing grade.
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#3Melancholy. So young but so old. Wandering without direction. Waking up. Will there be a spinoff? Something to bring meaning?
Re: 30 years on from introducing the Web to the World
#4I’m more impressed that the first smartphone is only 14 years old and it has changed so much to our lives:
- First, it developed the usage of superficial socialization (lifestyle show-off, body photos, up to lewd behaviors or prostitution, depression for a lot of people, massive societal dopamine addiction),
- Second, Youtube was the world wild web of all politics and militant movements,
- We’re in a third phase where most of it is under control, not tight but clearly guided, with many people doubting the accuracy of both sides. The phase of defiance.
3 phases (in my opinion) in just a few years, each of them responsible for negative societal shifts (from democratized prostitution to the invasion of Congress), and also positive ones (tech progress, political progress too, to be honest). Who knows what’s next?
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#6Personal observation: heck I’m old.
General observation: this is the most brilliant invention of my lifetime, and has realized the information revolution, enabled countless humans to teach themselves and each other, and shown us a myriad of truths about ourselves.
A++
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#7The WWW was pretty great at age 10, but took a wrong turn in its teen years.
We now do signal amplification of the worst of humanity. The giants are walled gardens, and in another 10-15 years the "web" will be subsumed by Facebook, and Google's "Cromification/AMPlification" (content lives on their servers and there is no URL bar.)
We've destroyed much of the quirkiness and novelty.
Now instead of sharing content and news p2p, it flows from centralized behemoths that choose for us. RIP personal websites, RSS, IRC, and bittorrent. They still exist, just as shells of their former lives. Their promise sucked away.
It's not like the rest of tech fared much better. You can't even run your own software on half of the devices out there now. Or replace their batteries. Or trust them not to spy on you.
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#8It makes me feel strange to think that all these industries, all these jobs, and all these companies didn't exist just 30 years ago. Nowadays everyone says the web. It seems very hard to predict what technology will be dominant in another 30 years. It is fortunate that I will probably still live by then to witness the future.
Anyway, congratulations to the web.
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#9Melancholy. So young but so old. Wandering without direction. Waking up. Will there be a spinoff? Something to bring meaning?
The previous Kondratiev cycles were:
- Steam engine (1825)
- Electrical engineering and chemistry (1913)
- Automobile (1950)
- Computers… and even that could be split between the database era (1980), the web era (2000), and the AI era (2030?).
For each cycle, it starts like wild competition, and ends with installed actors. Who would think of being the small guy who topples Ford by reinventing automobile today? No-one.
There is no going back: Automobile has no “meaning”, just usages. All of this just makes society go faster. The only meaning in life is participating to the economy, family, and raising people from poverty.
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#10It's great that the web is so durable and long-lived, but I wonder about the health of it - it's got so complicated that we're down to only three implementations (Firefox, Chromium, WebKit), no realistic possibility of a new engine emerging, and essentially one implementation defining the standard. I wonder where we'll be in another 30 years?