p2pnet.net News:- World Wide Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee says he’s afraid the Net could be used to spread “misinformation and “undemocratic forces”.

That’s already happening, Sir Tim. And it’s been going on for years. The entertainment and software cartels routinely use the World Wide Web, as well as the offline print and electronic information dissemination services, to spread lies, dis- and misinformation and corporate propaganda.

But that’s not what Berners-Lee means.

He wants set up a web science research project, “to study the social implications of the web’s development,” says the BBC, quoting him as stating, “If we don’t have the ability to understand the web as it’s now emerging, we will end up with things that are very bad. Certain undemocratic things could emerge and misinformation start spreading over the web.”

But his new web science research initiative would be more than just computer science, he says.

It should attract researchers from a range of disciplines and would create a new science for studying the web, “which he believes would lead to newer and more exciting system,” says the BBC.

Also See:
BBC – Web inventor fears for the future , November 2, 2006

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