Tim Berners-Lee Doesn't Understand Web 2.0
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the founding father of the World Wide Web and director of the W3C consortium, gave an interview to the developerWorks IBM developer site, where he talks about the development of the Internet.
Tim Berners-Lee says it’s very foolish to make assumptions about the future popularity of technology by extrapolating current growth rates. Very often, the exponential growth at some point begins to slow down dramatically and disappears. Therefore, it is hardly possible to make any assumptions about the future development of the Internet. At the same time, the benefits of the World Wide Web to society are completely obvious. All conflicts in the world are due to misunderstanding. If we assume that the Internet as a communication technology reduces the level of misunderstanding, then it certainly makes the world a better place.
Of the current problems, Tim Berners-Lee highlights the controversy surrounding the principle of network neutrality, which he constantly writes about in his blog . It is bad that this topic is almost not discussed outside the United States. Even in Europe, people know little about this most serious problem. Some even hear the phrase “net neutrality” for the first time.
The most interesting part of the interview is devoted to promising web technologies. Of course, the most important and promising among them, Tim Berners-Lee, considers his brainchild - the Semantic Network. For example, Berners-Lee has several student interns at the university. Under the guidance of the professor, they developed an Ajax program, with which you can “pull” any data from the Semantic Web, put it on a calendar or on a map, or use it in another way. Such a beautiful demonstration of what can be done with RDF programming. Tim Berners-Lee believes that such programming is the future. Here, the programmer does not need to think much about the syntax or data structure, so writing applications will be much easier.
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Speaking of programming technologies that are currently fashionable, Tim Berners-Lee is very positive about Ajax as a universal platform for creating browser-based applications. He says that you can create highly functional user interfaces using HTML DOM or SVG DOM, so the future is definitely in Ajax applications.
As for the “innovative nature” of Web 2.0, here Tim Berners-Lee speaks very categorically. He doesn’t understand at all what Web 2.0 is. He considers this a “jargon”, the meaning of which is not known to anyone at all. If it’s about people joining, blogging and wiki, says Tim Berners-Lee, then this is the real Web 1.0. Actually, for this purpose the World Network was created. All the technologies that are used in Web 2.0 applications have been around for a long time and are well known, so there is nothing new here. The idea of ​​using the Internet to connect people - this is the original idea of ​​the WWW.
Blogs and wikis are great technology, says Tim Berners-Lee, because they allow people to create interactive projects together. But in the future, new, more advanced collaboration tools will surely appear: not only semantic wiki , but other technologies that have yet to be invented.
Tim Berners-Lee says it’s very foolish to make assumptions about the future popularity of technology by extrapolating current growth rates. Very often, the exponential growth at some point begins to slow down dramatically and disappears. Therefore, it is hardly possible to make any assumptions about the future development of the Internet. At the same time, the benefits of the World Wide Web to society are completely obvious. All conflicts in the world are due to misunderstanding. If we assume that the Internet as a communication technology reduces the level of misunderstanding, then it certainly makes the world a better place.
Of the current problems, Tim Berners-Lee highlights the controversy surrounding the principle of network neutrality, which he constantly writes about in his blog . It is bad that this topic is almost not discussed outside the United States. Even in Europe, people know little about this most serious problem. Some even hear the phrase “net neutrality” for the first time.
The most interesting part of the interview is devoted to promising web technologies. Of course, the most important and promising among them, Tim Berners-Lee, considers his brainchild - the Semantic Network. For example, Berners-Lee has several student interns at the university. Under the guidance of the professor, they developed an Ajax program, with which you can “pull” any data from the Semantic Web, put it on a calendar or on a map, or use it in another way. Such a beautiful demonstration of what can be done with RDF programming. Tim Berners-Lee believes that such programming is the future. Here, the programmer does not need to think much about the syntax or data structure, so writing applications will be much easier.
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Speaking of programming technologies that are currently fashionable, Tim Berners-Lee is very positive about Ajax as a universal platform for creating browser-based applications. He says that you can create highly functional user interfaces using HTML DOM or SVG DOM, so the future is definitely in Ajax applications.
As for the “innovative nature” of Web 2.0, here Tim Berners-Lee speaks very categorically. He doesn’t understand at all what Web 2.0 is. He considers this a “jargon”, the meaning of which is not known to anyone at all. If it’s about people joining, blogging and wiki, says Tim Berners-Lee, then this is the real Web 1.0. Actually, for this purpose the World Network was created. All the technologies that are used in Web 2.0 applications have been around for a long time and are well known, so there is nothing new here. The idea of ​​using the Internet to connect people - this is the original idea of ​​the WWW.
Blogs and wikis are great technology, says Tim Berners-Lee, because they allow people to create interactive projects together. But in the future, new, more advanced collaboration tools will surely appear: not only semantic wiki , but other technologies that have yet to be invented.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4361/
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