TKW format
Reflections about the TKW format, inspired after talking with the father of the father of the Internet Conway Berners- Lee about Takeaway.
Q&A with the son from the father who peopel say is the father of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, director of the World Wide Web Consortium.
Q Karel Dudesek: I'd like to know your thoughts about the futuristic
scenario of people and the machine. The machine gets more intelligent,
learning, the software is learning. So will a human get obsolete by
the machine?
A: Ray Kurzweil wrote good books on this. What happens when the
transistors on a chip outnumber the neurons in a human brain? So I
hope we can build things that think, although we too easily
underestimate whats involved. And I don't think they will revolt when
things reach a critical mass. I don't think the machines will take
over, but we will get a situation where we as humans can do crazy
things. So our tendencies to polarise into cults, something happening
throughout the ages that's destroyed previous great civilisations,
becomes important. As technology gets faster and faster, we don't get
less and less prone to that stuff. So a responsibility of web science
is to think of the web as connected humanity, and care for it, and
make sure people don't get sick.
Karel Dudesek is co founder of IUPA (Institute of unknown political affairs), Minus Delta t (music and performance group) the Ponton Media Lab in Hamburg, director of Van Gogh TV- Atlanta/Meckelfeld, former director of the New Media department at the University of applied Arts- Vienna and from 2001 - 2007 Course Leader for Postgraduate studies in Ravensbourne. He is co founder of the Takeawayfestival in 2006.
The picture: Karel talking with the father of the father of the Internet Conway Berners- Lee about Takeaway.



