Friday, August 11, 2006

Web 2.0 is nothing

Often we hear locutions such as "this is newest computer language and solves all problems", "with the new technology everybody will prosper", "this solves all problems with the world in near future", "why you are so backwards and not use this" etc. Here we refer to such as "silver bullets", things people believe is solution to everything.

Now the uninformed speak about Web 2 as the solution to everything. And again they are completely wrong and should apologize. Why?

  • Wikipedia is good in some ways but not trustworthy! Anybody can write on page, even without university education! This is not tenable.
  • Dating services making people forget about work and do unimportant, irrational things such as meeting strangers and engaging in sex that take away energy and potentially criminal activity.
  • Blogs, even though good when used by correct people, do not convey better information than learned sources.


However this is also fault of the original creators of HTML. It is a bad standard and it will continue to create things like this.

2 comments:

jrc said...

Mr. Saghamullit,

Perhaps you did not know that Wikipedia's template language is now Turing-complete.

It is obvious that the trustworthiness of Wikipedia will be able to be guaranteed with new developments such as this. In the future, edits to articles can be written in terms of logical assertions which can then subject to a verification process whereby the formal correctness can be proven. Clearly this is the proper approach.

I think you should apologize to Wikipedia and the original creators of HTML, because innovation is what will carry this great country forward!

U.J.

Paig Saghamullit said...

I should not apologize because innovation comes from intelligent people, not just cooperation everywhere and then no result.