sylleptic - mark hopwood’s blog

A few of us went to see Tim Berners-Lee’s lecture at the British Computer Society last night, and it’s provoked a lot of thinking.

I’m going to write about a few topics over the next few days:

• Web Science, the academic discipline which studies the social and technical implications of the web and the emergent behaviours of large numbers of inter-connected people and computers
• The difference between foundation technology and ceiling technology, and why one is better than the other
• Tim’s view of the semantic web
• Pervasive pixels
• The universality of the web

As a teaser, my version of Tim’s diagram, which he used to explain Web Science and a host of issues, follows.

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