CERN is a big place with a unique identity of its own, not because it has one of the biggest machines in the world which is exploring the biggest secrets of the universe but because it brings the most inquisitive brains together to do something which can be just imagined at the very first stage.
Web was one of the biggest invention which changed how the world interacts. It created an ecosystem which brought people closer. And while reading the book one can see that the potential of it was never recognised in the early days. Once it was set free and adopted by larger public, it showed what it can do.
Tim Berners-Lee did design the first rules of the web but eventually it was built by all the people who adopted it in their own creative sense. Making it productive, operational, and useful. Which is the point where you can see that if it was not set free and commercialized from the very first moment it would have never become what it is today.
The most beautiful thing about the book is all the mentions of people who contributed to the progress of web which gives the sense that it was built by a community which worked on an idea of common good, and some people with commercial interests. It made a lot of people very rich but that story of wealth needs a different book to record the honest collaborations and the commercial dishonesty.
From the very first page/protocol to the current AI products, technology has come a long way in a short time but nobody can say for sure how far it can go.
Peace
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