20 januari 2021 | 19:30 – 20:30
Oftewel… Steven Pembertons 2021 Video Vorecast!
Trouwe bezoekers weten dat in januari Steven Pemberton zijn licht laat schijnen over internet en de digitale wereld.
Zijn aanpak is dit jaar niet traditioneel: hij gaat zijn verhaal doen in een online video. Hieronder zijn introductie van het onderwerp:
The future doesn’t just suddenly happen. It comes creeping up on us, like an oil slick.
For instance, 30 years ago last month, the first web server went online. The Web wasn’t an explosion: the internet already existed years before the web, and people were already transmitting and receiving files, and communicating over the internet.
Similarly, there were also already hypertext systems, though not connected to the internet. The web just joined the two together, and so wasn’t a shock at the time, it just made life somewhat easier.
But for people who had seen neither internet nor hypertext, the web appeared amazing, that it must have been designed by a genius. Well, either that or people would moan that WWW really stood for “World Wide Wait” because it was so slow, or that it was just a passing fad, or that it was just for geeks.
But in fact, maybe the future has to come in small doses, so that people can accustom themselves to it, and when people say that something was ‘ahead of its time’, it just means that conditions weren’t ready for it.
This talk looks at the future that is today through a lens of yesterday, to see what, if any, lessons we can learn.
Steven Pemberton is wiskundige, onderzoeker, schrijver en spreker. Hij werkte in Amsterdam bij het CWI, het centrum voor wiskunde en informatica. Ook is hij actief voor W3C, het World Wide Web Consortium.
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