I had the privilege of discussing the WWW with Sir Berners-Lee at one of his first public demos at the RARE conference in Zurich in 1991. When I complained that he needed eternal links to make his 'library in the sky' dream come true, he counter-complained about the fact that 'studies have shown that if a hyperlink doesn't resolve in a tenth of a second, users will go elsewhere'. Well, he was wrong in the short term (imagine downloading porn with a 1991 browser, or even the first Mosaic) but seems to have been right in the long term. I salute you, Sir Tim!
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Completely agreed. Humans need privacy, and the social tokens implicit in being able to share information selectively. The Net tries to negate this; to the extent that is does negate this, we will witness the rise of 'sharable but not completely public' means of communication.
It's an interesting paradox... each of us desires to know everything that is going on around us, but desires to show little of what we actually tell others.
References:
The Death of Privacy, David Brin
Arisotos, William Jon Williams
War of the Worlds (if read deeply enough), W.G.Wells
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I had the privilege of discussing the WWW with Sir Berners-Lee at one of his first public demos at the RARE conference in Zurich in 1991. When I complained that he needed eternal links to make his 'library in the sky' dream come true, he counter-complained about the fact that 'studies have shown that if a hyperlink doesn't resolve in a tenth of a second, users will go elsewhere'. Well, he was wrong in the short term (imagine downloading porn with a 1991 browser, or even the first Mosaic) but seems to have been right in the long term. I salute you, Sir Tim!
Completely agreed. Humans need privacy, and the social tokens implicit in being able to share information selectively. The Net tries to negate this; to the extent that is does negate this, we will witness the rise of 'sharable but not completely public' means of communication. It's an interesting paradox... each of us desires to know everything that is going on around us, but desires to show little of what we actually tell others. References: The Death of Privacy, David Brin Arisotos, William Jon Williams War of the Worlds (if read deeply enough), W.G.Wells
this was discussed, in detail, in 1995... Look for the transcripts of the Internet Society conference in Prague, the Czech Republic.