What is the original promise of the World Wide Web ?

Posted by jgrant, 2007-12-17 23:21:54

(watch the complete interview)

' Restoring the Promise of the World Wide Web "Commercial aspects of the web have diverted its potential. Firmage wants to untangle the web and inspire young minds," concludes Doug Fabrizio about his interview with Joe for KUED's Utah Now. '

A very optimistic(and a seemingly very much needed) attempt to bring the internet back in line with it's original purpose and to lessen the outright commercialization of this important and quite recent breakthrough for us all. However I'm not quite certain how that implementation might pan out for such a project.

What if the web were more like PBS in some ways ? (please come up with something more than suggesting that wikipedia fills this role already).

check out ManyOne Networks / Digital Universe

and more about the guy behind this, Joe Firmage

Readers may recall that there was some controversy around his personal beliefs that he made public back in 1998 shortly after getting very rich from a successful Silicon Valley startup called USWeb. This led to media types calling him the 'Fox Mulder' of Silicon Valley.