These are my notes from a talk by Sir Tim Berners-Lee at LeWeb back in 2014. He was starting to say things we weren’t ready to hear back then…
Goodness. Who know that my old pro gaming work might open the door to a new career? Digital companies are using after work D&D games to boost morale.
I’ll roll 2D10 to that!
Bless Blizzard and the Overwatch team for doing something that allows me to write “a teeny tiny digital murder rodent" in a Serious Piece I am writing right now.
The creator of the World Wide Web is fighting to reclaim it from the Duopoly - if you don’t care about re-decentralising the web, you don’t understand how important it is to all of us.
The Web has become anti-human
Sir Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t mince his words:
“We demonstrated that the Web had failed instead of served humanity, as it was supposed to have done, and failed in many places,” he told me. The increasing centralization of the Web, he says, has “ended up producing—with no deliberate action of the people who designed the platform—a large-scale emergent phenomenon which is anti-human.”
Note to self: never try to analyse the physics of PAW Patrol.
(But where does the water for Marshall’s backpack water jets come from?)
Now my account is all fixed, I’m really enjoying micro.blog again. Thanks, @manton.