The Machine is Us/ing Us

Here’s a terrific little video that conveys something of the excitement I feel when I think about the Web and the extraordinary changes that I’ve seen in its technology in the last 15 years.

 

 

It really doesn’t seem that long ago that I was creating web pages using Notepad (see about one minute into the video). And I wonder if most people watching this video appreciate the enormous change that is taking place as a result of the change from form to content. When we started, the web was all about form – HTML is a markup language – it describes how a page should look; but with the advent of XML, we are describing not just form, but content itself. It’s the change from passively viewing the web to actively programming the web.

 

(hat tip to the Prospect blog for the link)