A Magna Carta for the web
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0:01 - 0:03TED is 30.
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0:03 - 0:05The world wide web is celebrating this month
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0:05 - 0:07its 25th anniversary.
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0:07 - 0:10So I've got a question for you.
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0:10 - 0:15Let's talk about the journey, mainly about the future.
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0:15 - 0:17Let's talk about the state.
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0:17 - 0:19Let's talk about what sort of a web we want.
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0:19 - 0:22So 25 years ago, then, I was working at CERN.
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0:22 - 0:25I got permission in the end after about a year
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0:25 - 0:27to basically do it as a side project.
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0:27 - 0:29I wrote the code.
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0:29 - 0:31I was I suppose the first user.
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0:31 - 0:34There was a lot of concern
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0:34 - 0:35that people didn't want to pick it up
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0:35 - 0:37because it would be too complicated.
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0:37 - 0:39A lot of persuasion, a lot of wonderful
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0:39 - 0:40collaboration with other people,
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0:40 - 0:43and bit by bit, it worked.
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0:43 - 0:45It took off. It was pretty cool.
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0:45 - 0:48And in fact, a few years later in 2000,
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0:48 - 0:52five percent of the world population
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0:52 - 0:54were using the world wide web.
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0:54 - 0:56In 2007, seven years later, 17 percent.
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0:56 - 1:00In 2008, we formed the World Wide Web Foundation
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1:00 - 1:01partly to look at that
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1:01 - 1:04and worry about that figure.
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1:04 - 1:06And now here we are in 2014,
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1:06 - 1:09and 40 percent of the world
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1:09 - 1:13are using the world wide web, and counting.
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1:13 - 1:15Obviously it's increasing.
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1:15 - 1:18I want you to think about both sides of that.
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1:18 - 1:20Okay, obviously to anybody here at TED,
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1:20 - 1:23the first question you ask is, what can we do
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1:23 - 1:25to get the other 60 percent on board
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1:25 - 1:27as quickly as possible?
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1:27 - 1:29Lots of important things. Obviously
it's going to be around mobile. -
1:29 - 1:31But also, I want you to think about the 40 percent,
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1:31 - 1:33because if you're sitting there yourself
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1:33 - 1:35sort of with a web-enabled life,
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1:35 - 1:36you don't remember things anymore,
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1:36 - 1:38you just look them up,
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1:38 - 1:42then you may feel that it's been a success
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1:42 - 1:44and we can all sit back.
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1:44 - 1:47But in fact, yeah, it's been a success,
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1:47 - 1:49there's lots of things, Khan Academy
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1:49 - 1:52for crying out loud, there's Wikipedia,
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1:52 - 1:53there's a huge number of free e-books
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1:53 - 1:55that you can read online,
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1:55 - 1:57lots of wonderful things for education,
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1:57 - 1:58things in many areas.
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1:58 - 2:01Online commerce has in some cases
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2:01 - 2:03completely turned upside down the
way commerce works altogether, -
2:03 - 2:05made types of commerce available
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2:05 - 2:07which weren't available at all before.
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2:07 - 2:11Commerce has been almost universally affected.
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2:11 - 2:13Government, not universally affected,
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2:13 - 2:15but very affected, and on a good day,
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2:15 - 2:18lots of open data, lots of e-government,
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2:18 - 2:21so lots of things which are visible
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2:21 - 2:22happening on the web.
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2:22 - 2:25Also, lots of things which are less visible.
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2:25 - 2:27The healthcare, late at night when they're worried
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2:27 - 2:29about what sort of cancer
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2:29 - 2:31somebody they care about might have,
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2:31 - 2:36when they just talk across the Internet to somebody
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2:36 - 2:40who they care about very much in another country.
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2:40 - 2:44Those sorts of things are not, they're not out there,
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2:44 - 2:48and in fact they've acquired
a certain amount of privacy. -
2:48 - 2:50So we cannot assume that part of the web,
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2:50 - 2:52part of the deal with the web,
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2:52 - 2:53is when I use the web,
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2:53 - 2:56it's just a transparent, neutral medium.
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2:56 - 2:59I can talk to you over it without worrying
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2:59 - 3:02about what we in fact now know is happening,
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3:02 - 3:04without worrying about the fact
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3:04 - 3:06that not only will surveillance be happening
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3:06 - 3:09but it'll be done by people who may abuse the data.
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3:09 - 3:10So in fact, something we realized,
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3:10 - 3:12we can't just use the web,
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3:12 - 3:14we have to worry about
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3:14 - 3:17what the underlying infrastructure of the whole thing,
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3:17 - 3:21is it in fact of a quality that we need?
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3:21 - 3:26We revel in the fact that we
have this wonderful free speech. -
3:26 - 3:29We can tweet, and oh, lots and lots of people
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3:29 - 3:32can see our tweets, except when they can't,
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3:32 - 3:36except when actually Twitter
is blocked from their country, -
3:36 - 3:39or in some way the way we try to express ourselves
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3:39 - 3:42has put some information
about the state of ourselves, -
3:42 - 3:43the state of the country we live in,
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3:43 - 3:46which isn't available to anybody else.
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3:46 - 3:49So we must protest and make sure
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3:49 - 3:51that censorship is cut down,
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3:51 - 3:52that the web is opened up
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3:52 - 3:55where there is censorship.
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3:55 - 3:58We love the fact that the web is open.
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3:58 - 4:00It allows us to talk. Anybody can talk to anybody.
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4:00 - 4:02It doesn't matter who we are.
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4:02 - 4:03And then we join these big
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4:03 - 4:06social networking companies
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4:06 - 4:09which are in fact effectively built as silos,
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4:09 - 4:11so that it's much easier to talk to somebody
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4:11 - 4:13in the same social network
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4:13 - 4:15than it is to talk to somebody in a different one,
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4:15 - 4:19so in fact we're sometimes limiting ourselves.
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4:19 - 4:22And we also have, if you've read
the book about the filter bubble, -
4:22 - 4:24the filter bubble phenomenon is that
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4:24 - 4:26we love to use machines
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4:26 - 4:28which help us find stuff we like.
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4:28 - 4:30So we love it when we're bathed in
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4:30 - 4:32what things we like to click on,
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4:32 - 4:34and so the machine automatically feeds us
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4:34 - 4:36the stuff that we like and we end up
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4:36 - 4:40with this rose-colored spectacles view of the world
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4:40 - 4:42called a filter bubble.
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4:42 - 4:44So here are some of the things which maybe
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4:44 - 4:47threaten the social web we have.
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4:47 - 4:49What sort of web do you want?
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4:49 - 4:53I want one which is not
fragmented into lots of pieces, -
4:53 - 4:55as some countries have been suggesting
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4:55 - 4:58they should do in reaction to recent surveillance.
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4:58 - 5:02I want a web which has got, for example,
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5:02 - 5:05is a really good basis for democracy.
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5:05 - 5:09I want a web where I can use healthcare
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5:09 - 5:11with privacy and where there's a lot
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5:11 - 5:13of health data, clinical data is available
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5:13 - 5:15to scientists to do research.
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5:15 - 5:19I want a web where the other 60 percent
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5:19 - 5:21get on board as fast as possible.
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5:21 - 5:26I want a web which is such
a powerful basis for innovation -
5:26 - 5:27that when something nasty happens,
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5:27 - 5:29some disaster strikes, that we can respond
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5:29 - 5:33by building stuff to respond to it very quickly.
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5:33 - 5:36So this is just some of the things that I want,
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5:36 - 5:39from a big list, obviously it's longer.
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5:39 - 5:40You have your list.
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5:40 - 5:43I want us to use this 25th anniversary
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5:43 - 5:46to think about what sort of a web we want.
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5:46 - 5:47You can go to webat25.org
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5:47 - 5:48and find some links.
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5:48 - 5:49There are lots of sites where people
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5:49 - 5:52have started to put together a Magna Carta,
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5:52 - 5:54a bill of rights for the web.
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5:54 - 5:55How about we do that?
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5:55 - 6:00How about we decide, these are, in a way,
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6:00 - 6:03becoming fundamental rights, the right
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6:03 - 6:05What would be on your list for that Magna Carta?
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6:05 - 6:08Let's crowdsource a Magna Carta
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6:08 - 6:10for the web.
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6:10 - 6:12Let's do that this year.
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6:12 - 6:16Let's use the energy from the 25th anniversary
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6:16 - 6:18to crowdsource a Magna Carta
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6:18 - 6:20to the web. (Applause)
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6:20 - 6:24Thank you. And do me a favor, will you?
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6:24 - 6:27Fight for it for me. Okay? Thanks.
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6:27 - 6:31(Applause)
- Title:
- A Magna Carta for the web
- Speaker:
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Description:
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web 25 years ago. So it’s worth a listen when he warns us: There’s a battle ahead. Eroding net neutrality, filter bubbles and centralizating corporate control all threaten the web’s wide-open spaces. It’s up to users to fight for the right to access and openness. The question is, What kind of Internet do we want?
- Video Language:
- English
- Team:
- closed TED
- Project:
- TEDTalks
- Duration:
- 06:47
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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
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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?