Scripting News: Friday, August 8, 2025
Friday, August 8, 2025 I want the web to be like Harvard # Back in the beginning I wanted the web to be like Harvard. # It's one of the reasons I went there as a research fellow in 2003. # I wasn't satisfied with the web, the density of minds wasn't up to my expectations, so I thought if I brought the web to the minds, that might work better. I wanted to work on communication systems for people trying to work together to solve big problems. # I chose Harvard over MIT, because the web was already strong at MIT, and they weren't friendly to my cause, they were busy trying to reinvent the web when it imho didn't need that. I hoped instead, Harvard, more a school of the liberal arts, would be more open to innovation in communication between people as opposed to between machines. I felt, in 2003, that was a solved problem on the web. # It didn't happen there either, some great stuff did come out of that period, and some...
