The Web from Gore to Obama: science and fiction

1. The Web from Gore to Obama: science and fiction Michalis Vafopoulos 04/04/2013

2. Who’s talking? …The summit recognized the role of the Internet as a unique tool for promoting democracy and fostering economic growth.

3. The leaders! http://www.european-council.europa.eu/home-page/highlights/g8-support-for-the-arab-spring.aspx?lang=en

5. The Web space is: • Everywhere • Controversial • Contradictory • Unusual • Complex • Dynamic

6. contents • The Web today • Digital cosmogony • The Web invention • Technology • The Web ecosystem • Web science • New values • The future of the Web

7. We knew the Web was big... • >1 trillion unique URIs (deep web?) • >2,5 billion users (+ mobile) • Google: 300 million searches/day • 72% of users >=1 social network Source blog.usaseopros.com/2009/04/15/google-searches-per-day-reaches-293-million-in-march-2009/

8. the new continent Per minute: • 204 millionemails • Facebook: 2 million photos & 2 millionprofile views • Youtube: 1 million views • 47.000 apps are downloaded

9. …also in economy • UK: Online advertising >television expenditure for the first time [4 billion Euros/year] (30/9/2009, BBC) • US: spending on digital marketing overtook that of print for the first time in 2010 • Amazon.com: 50 million daily visitors • 60 billion dollars market capitalization • 24.000 employees

10. Digital Cosmogony: dot-com bubble 2000

11. Web 2.0 explosions of bits

12. contents • The Web today • Digital cosmogony • The Web invention • Technology • The Web ecosystem • Web science • New values • The future of the Web

13. The Web invention • Personal story • CERN, Dertouzos, Metakides • Global environment • Gore, Delors • Historical moment • Knowledge overload

14. The technology • Internet ≠ Web • Internet = infrastructure • Web • HTML • HTTP • URI

15. Why is so successful? Is based on architecture (HTTP, URI, HTML) which is: • simple • networked • based on open standards • extensible • tolerant

16. Why is so successful? • universal(regardless hardware platform (iphone applications??), software platform, application software, network access, public, group, or personal scope, language and culture operating system and ability) • free or cheap • fun • powerful

17. Underlying ideas • Overcome deterministic software connections (“waterfall” model) • Mimics the brain with “random” connections • From ASCII to hypertext • Resolve (some) natural language ambiguities (i.e. URI) • The biggest human system with no central authority and control

18. contents • The Web today • Digital cosmogony • The Web invention • Technology • The Web ecosystem • Web science • New values • The future of the Web

19. the new ecosystem An Internet application Web=Hypertext+(HTML,URI, HTTP)+Internet  An information space Web+users  The new ecosystem important effects in everyday life Creates & is created by the reality

20. Innovations in human life • The surf/edit experience • Low cost of communication • No central authority • Production outside the traditional market with no direct price, authority, corporate governance

21. the new ecosystem What is changing? New issues: personal and global agenda Prosumers: Self-powered production Inter-creativity: Distributed collaborative production Non market & non property production What is needed? New analysis New governance New values

22. new issues • Network oligopolies • Top 10 websites in USA: 31%(2001)-75% visits (2010) • Google/Facebook under anti-trust investigation • App economy & mobile ecosystem (see Firefox OS) • Web-based development • W3F action in Africa- India • Open Linked Data

23. new issues • Understanding & usage of the Web • In business • In everyday life

24. New analysis: Web science beforeWWW after 3/18

25. New analysis: Web science • a trans-disciplinary field • Web as its primary object of study • Web= techno-social artifact • positive or negative? Transformative! 3/18

26. Web science • envelope question what technological and other changes need to be made in order for the Web to work better for more people? 3/18

27. Two magics of Web Science Web & Philosophy

28. Email

29. Web: the idea

30. Web

31. Google

32. Wiki

33. Blog

34. Semantic Web

35. Linked Data

36. Ideas for projects • Add content – more examples • Explain more • Describe with ontology • Annotate existing papers • ? <yours> ? 3/18

37. Websci09 Athens: the journey begins

38. New Web governance • Advance the Web • Connect Humanity • Empower People

39. the new values New content/context in classic human values (e.g. anonymity, private space) Open {standards, data, cloud, source, access, minds} Privacy vs. accountability Transparency Net neutrality

40. The future of the Web from Al Gore – ’90s (internet highways) to Barack Obama –’10s (linked data)

41. other technologies HTML5 Semantic Web IPv6, Future internet, Internet of things

42. The Web is… • Unique opportunity to create collaboratively (not only experts) and • If we do not take it now, may not be there for a long time

43. The new utopia… Itis not just information that must be free, but the knowledge of how to use it. M. Wark, the manifesto of a hacker (MIT Press)

44. The new utopia… The test of a free society is not the liberty to consume information, nor to produce it, nor even to implement its potential in private world of one's choosing. M. Wark, the manifesto of a hacker (MIT Press)

45. The new utopia… The test of a free society is the liberty for the collective transformation of the world through abstractions freely chosen and freely actualized. M. Wark, the manifesto of a hacker (MIT Press)

46. two points of view • Economy, business and action.. • Philosophy, ethics and thinking…

47. Thank you for this sort journey!

48. Sources • http://www.w3.org/2007/Talks/0509-www-keynote-tbl/#(1)