(1/2) 37 years ago today I submitted my proposal for the World Wide Web 🎂.

[timbl@w3c.social]

(1/2) 37 years ago today I submitted my proposal for the World Wide Web 🎂. Today, Rosemary & I spoke with students in New Orleans at Walter Isaacson's Digital History Class at Tulane University. I was asked, as I often am, if I ever could have foreseen where we’d be today. I could not.

[timbl@w3c.social]

(2/2) What I did know was that it was to be guided by the overarching values of fuelling creativity, driving collaboration and igniting compassion. These values are even more important in the age of AI, a technology that has the same potential to liberate and cause harm #Web37

[pmj@social.pmj.rocks]

@timbl

you and oppenheimer - same story; weaponized sience

[pete@mas.to]

@pmj @timbl not really, no

[pmj@social.pmj.rocks]

@pete

yeah, maybe it's a bit of a shortcut
but currently, at this very moment in space and time, i see the picture like this
@timbl

[pete@mas.to]

@pmj @timbl

Oppenheimer was complicit.

Tim BL has always been the good guy.

[pmj@social.pmj.rocks]

@pete

true
but i din't mean their personalities, i meant as inventor or refiner of a certain technology which then was used as a WMD (which today's www definitely is)
@timbl

[evan@cosocial.ca]

@timbl Thanks for the work you do.

[pete@mas.to]

@pmj @timbl Oppenheimer literally developed WMDs.

[landon205@vee.seedy.cc]

@timbl Hay, I've heard about you once or twice, you are the one that made the internet happen back in 1991. I know because I listened to a podcast that mentioned it lol.

[maxbob@det.social]

@timbl thank you!