{"id":184,"date":"2006-11-02T10:04:53","date_gmt":"2006-11-02T09:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=184"},"modified":"2006-11-02T10:04:53","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T09:04:53","slug":"worried-about-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"Worried about the Web?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The British creator of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has told <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/6108578.stm\">BBC News<\/a> he fears that, if the way the Internet is used is left to develop unchecked, &#8220;bad things&#8221; could happen. So he wants set up a web science research project to study the social implications of the web&#8217;s development.<br \/>\nThe Web Science Research Initiative will chart out a research agenda aimed at understanding the scientific, technical and social challenges underlying the growth of the web. The US-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Southampton, here in the UK, will launch the long-term research collaboration that will have a direct influence on the future development of the Web.<br \/>\nThis sounds like an excellent intiative and I have a long-standing interest in the social implications of the Net as illustrated in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Connected.html\">these articles<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British creator of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has told BBC News he fears that, if the way the Internet is used is left to develop unchecked, &#8220;bad things&#8221; could happen. So he wants set up a web science research project to study the social implications of the web&#8217;s development. The Web [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}