Posts Tagged ‘Future Internet’

HOWARD RHEINGOLD

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The future of the Net has become too important to leave to specialists and special interests. … We need a clear citizen‘s vision of the way the Net ought to grow, a firm idea of the kind of media environment we would like to see in the future. If we do not develop such a vision for ourselves, the future will be shaped for us by large commercial and political powerholders.
(From „Howard Rheingold, The Virtual Community, 1993“)
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FERNANDA ROMANO

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It is very difficult to think about the future these days. It used to be that the future was a far away entity that creative minds liked to imagine and, why not, hope for. The future was in science fiction films, special effects and Asimov’s books and our minds wandered freely in the land of the unimaginable trying to be… inventive, why not, imagining, creating what one day would be. But the future caught up with us and, apart from my dear Rosie, the lovely robot maid of the Jetson Family, almost everything else we have imagined would live in the future is now part of the present and it has become very difficult, almost impossible, to picture what lies ahead.
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TIM BERNERS-LEE

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The point about the Web is it’s a platform. It should be, for the next generation, for the people who are students now, for people who are children now, they should find that the Web is a canvas that they can draw wonderful things on. If somebody asks me, “OK, so what’s going to be the result in 10 years? What do you imagine is going to be the result in 10 years if this all works out?” And the answer is, well, my imagination ought not to be a gauging factor. If we in the end of 10 years produced everything I can imagine, we have failed. The idea is to produce everything other people can imagine. (From the speech held before the Knight Foundation on 14 September 2008,
http://www.webfoundation.org/about/community/transcript-of-tim-berners-lee-video)
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Andrea Goetzke, Andreas Hirsch, Steve Rogers and David Sasaki

As we commence this day of workhops we may take a minute to ask ourselves: What are we doing here?

When the internet was young, there were high hopes how it would make everything more human. As the internet matured many thought the would get rich in high speed during the gold rush. As the internet matured and everybody got sober again in the early years of the new millennium – that was the time when the internet got reclaimed as a social space.

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