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TED is 30.
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The world wide web is celebrating this month
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its 25th anniversary.
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So I've got a question for you.
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Let's talk about the journey, mainly about the future.
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Let's talk about the state.
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Let's talk about what sort of a web we want.
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So 25 years ago, then, I was working at CERN.
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I got permission in the end after about a year
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to basically do it as a side project.
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I wrote the code.
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I was I suppose the first user.
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There was a lot of concern
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that people didn't want to pick it up
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because it would be too complicated.
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A lot of persuasion, a lot of wonderful
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collaboration with other people,
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and bit by bit, it worked.
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It took off. It was pretty cool.
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And in fact, a few years later in 2000,
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five percent of the world population
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were using the world wide web.
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In 2007, seven years later, 17 percent.
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In 2008, we formed the World Wide Web Foundation
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partly to look at that
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and worry about that figure.
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And now here we are in 2014,
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and 40 percent of the world
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are using the world wide web, and counting.
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Obviously it's increasing.
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I want you to think about both sides of that.
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Okay, obviously to anybody here at TED,
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the first question you ask is, what can we do
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to get the other 60 percent on board
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as quickly as possible?
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Lots of important things. Obviously
it's going to be around mobile.
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But also, I want you to think about the 40 percent,
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because if you're sitting there yourself
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sort of with a web-enabled life,
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you don't remember things anymore,
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you just look them up,
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then you may feel that it's been a success
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and we can all sit back.
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But in fact, yeah, it's been a success,
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there's lots of things, Khan Academy
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for crying out loud, there's Wikipedia,
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there's a huge number of free e-books
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that you can read online,
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lots of wonderful things for education,
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things in many areas.
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Online commerce has in some cases
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completely turned upside down the
way commerce works altogether,
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made types of commerce available
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which weren't available at all before.
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Commerce has been almost universally affected.
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Government, not universally affected,
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but very affected, and on a good day,
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lots of open data, lots of e-government,
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so lots of things which are visible
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happening on the web.
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Also, lots of things which are less visible.
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The healthcare, late at night when they're worried
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about what sort of cancer
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somebody they care about might have,
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when they just talk across the Internet to somebody
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who they care about very much in another country.
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Those sorts of things are not, they're not out there,
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and in fact they've acquired
a certain amount of privacy.
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So we cannot assume that part of the web,
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part of the deal with the web,
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is when I use the web,
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it's just a transparent, neutral medium.
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I can talk to you over it without worrying
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about what we in fact now know is happening,
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without worrying about the fact
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that not only will surveillance be happening
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but it'll be done by people who may abuse the data.
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So in fact, something we realized,
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we can't just use the web,
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we have to worry about
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what the underlying infrastructure of the whole thing,
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is it in fact of a quality that we need?
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We revel in the fact that we
have this wonderful free speech.
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We can tweet, and oh, lots and lots of people
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can see our tweets, except when they can't,
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except when actually Twitter
is blocked from their country,
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or in some way the way we try to express ourselves
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has put some information
about the state of ourselves,
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the state of the country we live in,
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which isn't available to anybody else.
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So we must protest and make sure
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that censorship is cut down,
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that the web is opened up
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where there is censorship.
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We love the fact that the web is open.
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It allows us to talk. Anybody can talk to anybody.
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It doesn't matter who we are.
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And then we join these big
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social networking companies
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which are in fact effectively built as silos,
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so that it's much easier to talk to somebody
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in the same social network
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than it is to talk to somebody in a different one,
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so in fact we're sometimes limiting ourselves.
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And we also have, if you've read
the book about the filter bubble,
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the filter bubble phenomenon is that
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we love to use machines
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which help us find stuff we like.
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So we love it when we're bathed in
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what things we like to click on,
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and so the machine automatically feeds us
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the stuff that we like and we end up
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with this rose-colored spectacles view of the world
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called a filter bubble.
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So here are some of the things which maybe
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threaten the social web we have.
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What sort of web do you want?
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I want one which is not
fragmented into lots of pieces,
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as some countries have been suggesting
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they should do in reaction to recent surveillance.
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I want a web which has got, for example,
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is a really good basis for democracy.
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I want a web where I can use healthcare
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with privacy and where there's a lot
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of health data, clinical data is available
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to scientists to do research.
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I want a web where the other 60 percent
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get on board as fast as possible.
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I want a web which is such
a powerful basis for innovation
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that when something nasty happens,
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some disaster strikes, that we can respond
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by building stuff to respond to it very quickly.
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So this is just some of the things that I want,
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from a big list, obviously it's longer.
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You have your list.
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I want us to use this 25th anniversary
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to think about what sort of a web we want.
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You can go to webat25.org
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and find some links.
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There are lots of sites where people
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have started to put together a Magna Carta,
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a bill of rights for the web.
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How about we do that?
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How about we decide, these are, in a way,
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becoming fundamental rights, the right
to communicate with whom I want.
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What would be on your list for that Magna Carta?
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Let's crowdsource a Magna Carta
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for the web.
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Let's do that this year.
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Let's use the energy from the 25th anniversary
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to crowdsource a Magna Carta
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to the web. (Applause)
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Thank you. And do me a favor, will you?
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Fight for it for me. Okay? Thanks.
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(Applause)
Camille Martínez
Hi all--
It sounds like the speaker says
2:44 - 2:48
and in fact _they require_
a certain amount of privacy.
rather than
2:44 - 2:48
and in fact _they've acquired_
a certain amount of privacy.
'They require' also makes more sense, given the point he's making.
Do you agree? Disagree?