The Internet has grown very quickly. More and more people are beginning to rely on and use the Internet daily. Before, Internet used to be a luxury, in few people had it to play games on and things of that nature, now most of everything can be found on the Internet.
The Internet is used to communicate with old classmates using Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. It is used for mail with e-mail servers. It is used to pay bills. It is used for research, instead of using books. And it is used to access the news verses getting the news from the television or newspaper.
Sir Timothy Berners-Lee published a report on "Digital Future of the United States". In his report he talks about the beginning of the web and how the web has grown from the beginning. Berners-Lee discusses how HTML has expanded and how more accessible the websites are now.
He states at the end of his report about how the web is not complete. "The Web, and everything which happens on it, rest on two things: technological protocols, and social conventions. The technological protocols, like HTTP and HTML, determine how computers interact. Social conventions, such as the incentive to make links to valuable resources, or the rules of engagement in a social networking web site, are about how people like to and are allowed to, interact."
You identified a critical piece of this reading--that the Web will continue to grow and was always meant to be unfinished. Keeping open protocols and an open understanding of the purpose of this powerful network is our future.
ReplyDeleteChristine M. Tracy