Obama’s Team Must Fight ‘Cultural Agoraphobia’
December 24th, 2008
Almost precisely 17 years ago, a young British researcher from Cern, the European organisation for nuclear research, gave a presentation in Texas on a technology that was to change society dramatically. That same month, the Cern newsletter announced it to the world: it was called the World Wide Web. My daughter doesn’t graduate from college until 2011 and even she is older than the web, which is something I find hard to believe. A life without the web is easy to remember and yet hard to recapture. It seems like such a natural part of our world, too “fixed” to have been such a recent arrival. But would we build it again today?
