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| 1945 ENIAC computer showed several problems with the H-Bomb Design |
Why is
Thomas Edison (inventor of the light bulb) a household name and not
Doug Engelbart (inventor of the mouse and networked computing first
demonstrated in 1968),
Computer Lib/Dream Machines (inventor of hypertext) or
Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web)? For one thing, Edison was an entrepreneurial business man while Engelbart, Nelson and Berners-Lee were idealists who saw their inventions as ways for people to share information and collaborate freely. Scholar
Michael Wesch still believes the web is a huge collaborative project with all of us contributing using platforms that both help share information and fuel the capitalist machine.
Lev Manovich also views
Web 2.0 as a platform for mass collaboration.
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