First time on this blog I am writing something not related to MBA and B-schools. I am trying to stick to the promise I made with myself to write not only about MBA but all the things that excites me. Just came across this wonderful article about the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee (by who ????). Well, Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of World Wide Web (www). These are the 3Ws without which the internet is dead and yet the name of his inventor got somewhere lost under the big and ever growing world of www. The article explains lots of interesting things right from the time www was conceived and how it was able to become the backbone of the internet. How business is driving the technology in the 21st century and how big companies are molding the www to their interests. The writer truthfully depicts the picture of www in the present scenario, and tries to explain why the flow of information should be open and accessible to every human being.
My favorite lines from this article:
As long as the web’s basic principles are upheld, its ongoing evolution is not in the hands of any one person or organization—neither mine nor anyone else’s. If we can preserve the principles, the Web promises some fantastic future capabilities.
In short, internet revolution is the biggest revolution of our generation. Every aspect of our life is directly or indirectly connected to it. Time will only answer this - Will we be able to destroy these walls which we have created around the information flow or will the www thrive like an independent entity like it was born, free.
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