- From: Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>
- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 21:55:20 +0200
- To: Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>
- Cc: Karl Dubost <karl+w3c@la-grange.net>, Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:48 PM, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com> wrote: > Ok, take a person from say 1980, tell them what the Web is about, ask > them what they want from it. > > Transport them to 2010. I suspect they would be disappointed on > certain fronts, but pretty happy with one or two things, most likely > awesomised in general. > > Now take a person from 2000 and transport them to the year 2030. They > by now know a fair bit about what the Web is about, but...the Web > might have changed. > > What do you reckon at this rate? > > If we can't awesomise the next generation, surely we're doing the > previous a disservice? Ok, If we're going in this direction I suggest everyone watch this great documentary from Douglas Adams. It precedes the Web by a few months, anticipates it in many ways... http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7190175107515525470# http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperland I think the big question it raises, and what I'm largely working on these days, is why has all this hypertext / linkyness not affected televison very much yet? Dan
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