Before I started my day, I read Trouble at the Koolaid Point, by Seriouspony [who writes “I’m not linking it to the blog, and it won’t likely stay up long”]. I had not heard about her until very recently, and reading her account felt like a punch in the face. It stayed with me since then. I think it’s going to stay with me a while.
Midway through her account, Seriouspony wrote:
“This is the world we have created.”
Later in the day at work, I followed tweets and news of the Keynote on the future of the Web that Tim Berners-Lee gave at the opening of IPExpo in London. He said many inspiring things in his habitual humble manner, but one in particular resonated with me. It was in response to a question from the floor related to the Dark Web. I soon found it in Brian’s timeline:
"The internet is a platform, it doesn’t have an attitude about what you do with it… The future is what we build"
–@timberners_lee <3— bkardell 🐦 (@briankardell) October 8, 2014
(The Register also quoted Tim at the end of a piece they published after his keynote.)
Kevin read Seriouspony too; here is his advice to which I live by:
https://twitter.com/kplawver/status/519866535922642944
And finally, Amy retweeted this:
https://twitter.com/kneath/status/519883872280928256
All is not white and all is not black, but there are some pretty dark grey stuff out there. Let’s be considerate of our fellow humans, please. Let’s stand up for ourselves. If the future is what we build, let’s build and nurture a world we can be proud of.