The internet is a mess. What is to be done?

Web 1.0, Web 2.0 in two flavours, Web 3 and Web 3.0, passwords, identity, NFTs, cryptocurrencies, Twitter, data being centralised, walled gardens. Why is it all going haywire, and is there anything we can do?

Internet 2023: An overview of where we are now.

A talk by Steven Pemberton

About the speaker
Steven Pemberton, a researcher affiliated with the CWI in Amsterdam, and regular annual speaker at Freelance Fridays, was the first user of the open internet in Europe in 1988. He went on to help design HTML, CSS, XHTML, and a number of other web technologies.

At university he was a tutee of the man who built the first transistorised computer, who himself was a tutee of Alan Turing, and Steven later worked in Turing's old department, writing software for the fifth in the line of computers that Turing also worked on.

Last year Steven was awarded the Lifetime Practice Award by ACM SIGCHI.

Main language: English | Voertaal: Engels
Room open: 19:30 | Start programme: 19:30
Zaal open: 19:00 | Start programma: 19:30

Expo Zaal in Pakhuis de Zwijger