My Questions for Tim Berners-Lee
My blog on Tim Berners-Lee will consist of questions written as if I’m asking them directly to the man. I would like to ask him the following questions:
Q1. I’m struck by the allusion to books in the 1999 Times article (the naming of your browser Enquire after the encyclopedia "Enquire Within Upon Everything", and the journalist describing your internet invention as “almost Gutenbergian”). So what books do you recommend reading and why? Also, what are you currently reading?
Q2. Why did you decide against selling out and instead decide to work to keep the internet "open, nonproprietary and free"? Also, please tell me more about your ideals in relation to the internet as we now know it (any future plans or “wish lists”)?
Q3. What is your opinion on collective intelligence and folksonomies? Do you think this is a growing field or do you think that something else will replace it? How about an evolution (or in your case, return to your original idea) that a web browser should also be an editor; do you think this will happen in the next 25 years? If so, will that make blogs and wikis obsolete or do you see that as a separate and distinct categories?
Q4: How do you reconcile findability of quality resources to your description of the internet as “a garbage dump”? Also, if browsers facilitated writeability, how would certain internet sites be able to retain their credibility? For example, medical information websites. In your opinion, are there levels of who should be an internet “authority”?
Q5: Do you think it’s fair for journalists to ask you about your culpability in the undesirable aspects of the internet (for example child porn or stolen identities)? Do you think that other product inventors receive this same treatment or are you held to a different standard?
Q1. I’m struck by the allusion to books in the 1999 Times article (the naming of your browser Enquire after the encyclopedia "Enquire Within Upon Everything", and the journalist describing your internet invention as “almost Gutenbergian”). So what books do you recommend reading and why? Also, what are you currently reading?
Q2. Why did you decide against selling out and instead decide to work to keep the internet "open, nonproprietary and free"? Also, please tell me more about your ideals in relation to the internet as we now know it (any future plans or “wish lists”)?
Q3. What is your opinion on collective intelligence and folksonomies? Do you think this is a growing field or do you think that something else will replace it? How about an evolution (or in your case, return to your original idea) that a web browser should also be an editor; do you think this will happen in the next 25 years? If so, will that make blogs and wikis obsolete or do you see that as a separate and distinct categories?
Q4: How do you reconcile findability of quality resources to your description of the internet as “a garbage dump”? Also, if browsers facilitated writeability, how would certain internet sites be able to retain their credibility? For example, medical information websites. In your opinion, are there levels of who should be an internet “authority”?
Q5: Do you think it’s fair for journalists to ask you about your culpability in the undesirable aspects of the internet (for example child porn or stolen identities)? Do you think that other product inventors receive this same treatment or are you held to a different standard?
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