Beneficial and “ill effects” of the Web
As the article states, openness is one of the greatest strengths of the Web. The Web is a public resource, and openness and sharing are one of the great advantages of such a resource. During the epidemic, our students in Shanghai organized a resource exchange information group through the network to share movie resources, share mutual aid information, and help families with elderly people with underlying diseases, using the sharing characteristics of the network. This rapid dissemination and sharing of resources made the deployment of resources during the epidemic more efficient. Of course, the openness of the network can also bring disadvantages. Theft of private information such as private emails, web information, and web browsing history has become a violation of online power.
Universality and Isolation
Universality is built on the principle of the Internet of Everything, meaning that people can upload anything to the web. From a personal point of view, you will find that the network is connected all over the world, from the nodes of express delivery, to daily communication, everyone is on the nodes of the network.
Isolation is because each information fragment has no URI. the connection between data exists only in the site. To use a life example, this means that you access data from Facebook, but this data cannot be shared on Twitter because these sites are one isolated database.
Open Standards and Closed Worlds
An open standard I think refers to a standard that allows for multiple policies, but in general, it encourages anyone to participate in setting up a website, while also facilitating the emergence of a royalty-free system.
A closed world is one in which users can only access restricted networks through restricted means. Apple system and Android system are good examples. Apple system is a closed system, we can only use Apple’s iCloud, and iTunes to store access to information, not an open system like the Android system.
The Web and the Internet
According to the article, “The Web is an application that runs on the Internet, which is an electronic network that transmits packets of information among millions of computers according to a few open protocols” (83). Simply put I think the web is a node, and the internet is the line that connects the nodes together.
“the Web in the future”
The author does a series of visions for the future of the Web. He believes that the development of smartphones has made the web the center of our lives. In 10 years, the development of online social media such as TikTok will become more and more the center of our lives, as he says. At the same time, he believes that the future should be more collaborative between government and citizens, and businesses, citing information sharing initiatives on Alzheimer’s. In modern times, openness and collaboration have become mainstream, both in terms of disease control and livelihood protection.
Of course, laws for data protection are also on the agenda in real life, and his many predictions and visions can be realized in modern times.