Happy Thanksgiving... As you relax (or on your flight back), please take a look at this article by Sir Tim Berners-Lee published in the latest issue of the Scientific American. It is titled Long Live the Web: A Call for Continued Open Standards and Neutrality. I think it is an important read--both in terms of the last two decades and in terms of what the future implications of many of the ideas that we have explored in our course.
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Great article! Interesting parallels drawn between web standards and the Magna Carta & Constitution, especially when thinking about governance and enforcement, and the opposition that stands to gain the most from a lack of standards.
ReplyDeleteMy personal favorite concept: "It is better to build a Web app that will also run on smartphone browsers, and the techniques for doing so are getting better all the time." I interpret this as projecting the demise of locally-stored information, and hadn't really considered until now that both openness and neutrality are indeed necessary to pave the way for this future.