Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, created a powerful entity.
(Credit: World Wide Web Consortium)
The Web turned 25 this week and the birthday celebrations have been full of memories and musings. Crave’s Eric Mack put together a four-part series tracing his life through the Web, from his days as a teenage dial-up addict, through the dot-com boom and bust, to how the Web looks today.
It’s been a wild ride so far, but where will the roller coaster take us next? There’s been plenty of speculation on the future of the Web. Even though “Minority Report” came out back in 2002, it’s still mentioned constantly as a model for immersive interactions with computers. Perhaps we’ll all be flailing our hands about in the air as we interface with a Web that has pretty much the whole world under surveillance.
There is already plenty of talk about the “Internet of Things,” so it’s not hard to imagine the Web growing into a giant network of stuff, connecting everything from dog collars to toasters to sensor-laden bracelets worn on our wris… [Read more]
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