Wednesday, December 05, 2007

On the digital future

The Online journalism review carries a report on a speech made by Tim Berners Lee,the founder of the Internet.


If you go away today with any one thing in your head when it comes to the Web architecture, it's that it is a universal space. It's got to be there like a white piece of paper, for people to do other stuff on it. And the Web is great because of all of the creativity that other people have put in. It mustn't control what other people want to do with it. It clearly has got to be able to work on any hardware platform.


Then I read this report that tells us

a study conducted by Nemertes Research, indicates that Internet access infrastructure, specifically in North America, will cease to be adequate for supporting demand within the next three to five years.


It is a good point to make that the digital future,whilst unveiling boundless opportunities is very dependent on upgrades in technology carrying this vision forward.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Nigel wrote, "Tim Berners Lee,the founder of the Internet."

Tim Berners Lee emphatically did not invent the Internet. He invented the World Wide Web (WWW) years after the Internet was set up.

Even today there are many other ways of accessing the Internet besides a web browser.

Nigel Barlow said...

Sorry my apologies and accept your point