About "Weaving the Web"

Berners-Lee's article,"Weaving the Web" is not favorable in the sense that it proposes a sort of communal use of the internet. In this system, privacy is not respected. This is because the Web is seen as a "powerful means for collaboration between people". As much as this assumption is acceptable to a certain degree, the exaggeration in Berners-Lee's proposal is somewhat terrifying. It is terrifying because we do not really know if the society's moral values would be able to handle it.

Berners-Lee describes such a network of information exchange that it is as if nothing can be hidden. Also, Berners-Lee's argument seemingly involves a defense of creativity and yet it is a sort of inter- creativity he brings forward. Through this and the sharing of all kinds of information, he believes, the Web will become the ideal platform of a sum of ideas. In order to be able to achieve this, the primary thing that has to be done is to create "a universal space across which all hypertext links can travel". As much as his system seems scary in the sense that the original creators of projects will not be respected, Berners-Lee's emphasis on linking material is similar to what was imagined before him. Not only is there a similarity with the hypertext links he mentions, the fact that a corporate memory that was put forward by the never-completed device, "great hacker-dream" Xanadu is exactly the same as what Berners-Lee proposes. Yet again, Berners-Lee was able to come up with his utopian ideas about hypertext link and communication because the computer, similar to as we know it today was introduced in 1968 by Engelbart.

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