Subjectively:
I liked Berner-Lee’s website for kids. I can understand it!
http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Kids#Where
I appreciate the joyful enthusiasm & obvious engagement of Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Dr. David Clark. I’m light years away from understanding them. I understood David Weinberger better and was disappointed Ted Nelson’s talk didn’t follow. (Perhaps it will). I understood Weinberger’s trees, leaves, silverware, and laundry analogies as he related it to changing models of knowledge. Fascinating, engaging! He does a great job making his topic accessible, not surprising, as that’s his focus w/ information. I particularly enjoyed the dialogue w/ audience questions in the Berners-Lee and Weinberger groups. Judging from the 3 of them, I’m inclined to think that studying physics, computer science and philosophy is the fountain of youth. While it’s clear from some gray hairs or their sheer amount of education and experience that they are more than 20 years old, their vitality belies that.
Objectively:
The internet/web future is challenged by growing pains: a tension between free access and open sharing versus regulation, profits, and profiteering. It’s clear the aforementioned are working to ensure that it’s a resource that not only remains open to all, but grows in access for all.
I listened to the podcasts, took notes, googled & wikipedia-ed speakers, cruised the internet (something I’ve never spent any appreciable time doing), and discovered the following links. GREAT stuff! Made from great minds, who willingly share, clearly believing that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts…something to be preserved and protected for the benefit of the world.
"Reflecting an Internet Decade with John Perry Barlow." 16 minutes. Barlow, lyricist for Grateful Dead and author of “Economy of Ideas” Wired, 1994.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu3efDQwULc
Some interesting quotes from his from the interview.
“Old paradigm still rules.”
It is a “Fundamental human right to know. To have access to knowledge. Society needs to be organized in a way that will maximize access for all human beings. I have a dream, that anybody, anywhere on this planet who wants to know something will be able to find it and learn it from the best possible sources.”
“When you spread information, you create demand for it.”
Another link of interest:
The History of the Internet – about 9 minutes by Ethan Zuckerman
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