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Berners-Lee Says Internet Will Make Kids Creative

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i-want-a-hyphen-in-my-name-too dept.

ErikPeterson submitted a story where Tim Berners-Lee (if you need explanation, you're reading the wrong site) is interviewed about how on-line life will make our children more creative than us. He makes various points and predictions about what the internet will do.

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  1. And... by sultanoslack · · Score: 3, Funny

    And he also predicts that the semantic web will take off Real Soon Now. ;-) (Where real soon is t + 5 years for continuously evaluated t.)

  2. Tools? by b100dian · · Score: 4, Funny

    The people who designed the tools that make the Net run had their own ideas for the future. I look forward to seeing what the next generation does with these tools that we could not have foreseen...

    #1> Gimie you're IP and Ill hax0r ya rite aw4ay...!
    #2> 127.0.0.1
    #1 connection reset by peer

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  3. At what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seems to me it would make them more creative at three things...

    1. Finding a way to send IM's to each other at school without the admin noticing.

    2. Find ways to get to game/pr0n sites that filters block.

    3. Find ways to appear working, while actually not.

    An interesting story from #3...
    A friend of mine was supposed to be doing some work for history at school, but didn't know that the computers had sound. (his work was in another window) He went to stupidvideos.com, and started to play a clip, but then the computer belted out, "Stupid Videos!" and then the sounds of someone doig something stupid. Thinking fast, he hid the taskbar and switched to the window with his work. The teacher never found out who it was playing the stupidvideos.

  4. Re:Presentation by xtracto · · Score: 3, Funny

    From tfa:
    Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.

    I CALL BULLSHIT!

    We all know Al Gore invented teh interweb!

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  5. Internet Creativity? by TooMuchEspressoGuy · · Score: 3, Funny
    I happen to agree with the article, in that the Internet WILL make our kids more creative than us. I mean, just look at what's happening now! Children and teenagers everywhere are breaking free from the artificial bonds known as "basic English" that the oppressive adult regime foists upon them! Why, just j00 wait and see! Soon these kids will be r future poets, artists, n arkitects! Like, OMFGLOLz! that wud b teh r0xx0r!

    ...ow. I think my brain cells just died.

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