It's called Long live the Web, and is a article to be published in the December issue of U.S. magazine Scientific American. An essay published a preview on the website of the same magazine Stars and Stripes, signed by the father of the www, Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Six pages to explain to the world because the Internet is synonymous with freedom and democracy as well as a handful of new players in the network threatens the very principles that for more than a decade represent the inner strength. "The Web has evolved into a powerful and ubiquitous - Berners-Lee made his debut - as it was built on the principles of equality and on the work of thousands of individuals, universities and companies. What have acted both individually and collectively as part of the World Wide Web Consortium, so that the web could expand its possibilities. "But the current web is in danger, threatened in a number of IT aspetti.Alcuni of new players have more than a shadow that is cast on a fundamental principle for the Network, one relating to its universality. The web would risk breaking up into a kind of archipelago, made up of many separate islands, closed in themselves and therefore disconnected from what it should be a single, gigantic universe of bits. But what Islands has spoken Tim Berners-Lee? First
those potentially created by social networking sites like Facebook and Friendster. Sites whose value is based on information provided by users, aggregate in giganteschi database in attesa di un inevitabile sfruttamento commerciale. "Ognuno di questi siti rappresenta come un silo - ha spiegato Berners-Lee - separato rispetto agli altri. Una volta che si immettono dei dati verso uno di questi servizi, non è facile riutilizzarli in un altro spazio".
Come dire che le varie pagine personali rimangono presenti in un unico ambiente web, mentre tutte le informazioni inviate o i contenuti postati vengono recintati in quello che in lingua inglese viene chiamato walled-garden. Un ambiente recintato, contrassegnato dalla effe in blu di Facebook o dai profili curriculari di LinkedIn. Ma non di soli social network ha parlato il padre del web. Una decisa stoccata è arrivata a colpire operatori del cavo e provider della Network
The theme is one of those delicate. "What would happen if your ISP would offer faster connectivity to achieve a particular online store for shoes and while you access to other complications? - Berners-Lee was asked about net neutrality - would control a very powerful. What if your provider will complicate access to certain sites, talk of a political faction or a particular religion? ".
The baronet of the Web has also lashed out at Apple, guilty of promoting a vision of the owner of the Net In particular, the iTunes platform shut their users in a certain market required, rather than refer them to an environment open. The future evolution of that web would be so limited to one thought led by companies such as Cupertino. Berners-Lee has therefore stressed that internal addresses to the Apple platform, always begin with itunes: rather than http: "You can not link to any information in the world of iTunes - you can read it again - You can not send this link to someone 'other. You are no longer on the web. " Web that should instead be preserved, according to Berners-Lee, in his own integrity and universality. The way forward should therefore to open standards, not to ecosystems such as closed, centralized social or taste from Old Mela.Mauro point-informatico.it
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