The website celebrates its 25th anniversary with a promising future, but haunted by those seeking to control the most universal tool created by man, as the pioneers of this Network meeting week in California.
SANTA CLARA (USA). British scientist Tim Berners-Lee, popularly known as the “father of the Web,” Google Vice President Vinton Cerf, and a long list of engineers and computer scientists come together these days in a hotel in the town of Santa . Clara
including the president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers Domains (ICANN), Fadi Chehade add; the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), US, Jessica Rosenworcel; or the president of the Ford Foundation, Darren Walker.
The experts agree that the democratizing power of the Web, but also the temptations of control by governments and others, and defend a free network restrictions that everyone can access.
In this regard, the Commissioner of the FCC called Wednesday night for technologies that improve access to information for people with disabilities such as the blind.
Rosenworcel applauded, for example, the potential of technological advances such as self-directed vehicle for the blind have.
The conference pays special attention to the threats facing the site at its twenty-fifth anniversary.
The chairman of ICANN brought up during the meeting the words of a Latin American vice president, who was not identified and who reminded that governments like the power and because the web is a powerful tool, try to control it.
“The web is still a major source of human solidarity (…) and it is truly the most universal tool we created,” said Chehade, who stressed the importance of finding a role for governments and thus discourage the temptation to claim a free and open network.
He stressed, in this regard, that the “friction” on the web not only have a negative impact on democracy and freedom, but an adverse economic effect.
Meanwhile, Darren Walker, Ford Foundation, said he believes the policy and regulatory policies are the main threat facing the web.
He mentioned, moreover, that to change the democratic mass participation is necessary and said he was convinced of the enormous mobilization potential of the web, a potential he said he has not yet been fully exploited.
Moh Reza Haghighat, an engineer of Iranian descent leader in the innovation department at Intel, told Efe predicted that new technologies will soon be added to computers, cameras and three dimensions, allow more intuitive interaction between the user and electronic devices.
“Devices you will see, hear, feel,” predicted Haghighat.
There were also memorable moments, like when Berners-Lee, establishing the first communication between a client and a server using HTTP protocol in 1989, praised the spirit of cooperation that helped to develop the web that he invented.
“I remember the sparkle in her eyes and the feeling I could be fun, “he said of those pioneers Berners-Lee, who held that engineers and technologists who developed the web verifications aside their differences to build together ‘a flat structure on which you can build anything” .
also advocated in favor of net neutrality and independence of the web, considered essential to “preserve”.
“We have insisted to spend time creating the web but also defending it. “
Otherwise, Berners-Lee criticized as popular as Twitter platforms considering that amplify extreme views, which is concerned in a polarized world.
“Twitter is a medium that amplifies the ends,” Berners-Lee said at a conference on the future of the web.
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