正如BBC虛擬革命 (The Virtual Revolution)的標題”How 20 Years of the web has reshaped our lives”所述,40年「歷史」的互聯網W和20年「歷史」的全球資訊網路/萬維網W(WWWW)影響世界是廣而深的。自Tim Berners-Lee發明萬維網W(WWWW)已經20年,網路帶來的深遠影響—無論好壞,數碼革命如何改變了人類的生活呢?記者兼大學講師Aleks KrotoskiW博士走訪全球,研究網絡改變一切的意義,包括我們如何學習、購物、投票、交友等等。目前全球只有四分之一的人上網,這系列探討了當世界剩下的四分之三的人將要上網時,網絡又為他們準備了什麼呢?
20 years on from the invention of the World Wide Web Dr Aleks Krotoski explores how it is reshaping almost every aspect of our lives. Joined by some of the web’s biggest names including the founders of Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft and the web’s inventor – she explores how far the web has lived up to its early promise.
The founding father of the Web, Tim Berners-Lee, believed his invention would remain an open frontier that nobody could own, and that it would take power from the few and give it to the many. Now, in a provocative, strongly authored argument, presenter Aleks Krotoski will re-assess utopian claims like these, made over many years by the digital revolution’s key innovators – and test them against the hard realities of the emerging Web today, exploring how the possibilities of the pure technology have been constrained, even distorted by the limitations of human nature.