THE END OF THE PAPER INTERNET
summary
Claim: the web is still a paper internet—most content remains presentation-only PDFs and image receipts, forms require print sign scan upload—despite hypertext, URLs and the free WWW launched by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau. Evidence: early printing exploded to 1,000 printing shops by 1500 producing ~35,000 titles and 20 million copies; the internet in Europe starts 1988 and Amsterdam now peaks at 12 terabits per second. Tools exist to fix this; cultural inertia, not technology, slows change.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 1:49Technology imitation of old forms
- 2:50Printing press revolution
- 6:03Social impact of printing
- 8:08Internet and web emergence
- 9:13Web replacing traditional media
- 10:36Web still imitating paper
- 12:20When will real web emerge
- 13:23Conclusion and summary
