Web Directions

The future of the web is…

• In: Blog
• By:Maxine
• June 15, 2008
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According to its cre­ator, Tim Berners-​​Lee, speak­ing last week at the Future of the Web Debate,

In the future, the web should be able to con­nect people’s ideas in such a way that one per­son could store his partly formed ideas and leave a trail of his think­ing for other peo­ple try­ing to solve the same problem

and

How can we make the web be an infra­struc­ture that allows more than one per­son to think more effec­tively than one per­son can?

Big inspi­ra­tion for Monday morn­ing! Read the full cov­er­age here at MacWorld UK. Oh, and check out a web­cast here, though be warned, the future of the web would also appear to require Silverlight :)

4 responses to “The future of the web is…”:

1. • By:Eric Meyer
   • June 15th, 2008
   

   …though be warned, the future of the web would also appear to require Silverlight :)

   Silverlight? Man, talk about the exe­cu­tion of the mes­sage fun­da­men­tally under­min­ing the mes­sage itself. (See also: Google Doctype.)

2. • By:maxine
   • June 15th, 2008
   

   Yes Eric, my thoughts exactly. There’s noth­ing like a lit­tle ironic recur­sion to kick off the week. Or is it recur­sive irony?

3. • By:NathanaelB
   • June 15th, 2008
   

   “…the web should be able to con­nect people’s ideas in such a way that one per­son could store his partly formed ideas and leave a trail of his think­ing for other peo­ple try­ing to solve the same problem”

   That’s already hap­pen­ing right now on Twitter :-)

4. • By:martinjy
   • June 15th, 2008
   

   This 15 Jun post from Matt Balara re Stowe Boyd ties in nicely with this -

   http://​mat​tbalara​.com/​2​0​0​8​/​0​6​/​s​t​o​w​e​-​b​o​y​d​-​l​a​y​s​-​d​o​w​n​-​t​h​e​-​l​a​w​.​h​tml

   Clearly everyone’s think­ing along the same lines …

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