Davos Newbies

James Boyle in the Financial Times marks the 15th anniversary of the first web page. It’s behind the subscription firewall, but here’s his crucial point: “There are three things that we need to understand about the web. First, it is more amazing than we think. Second, the conjunction of technologies that made the web successful was extremely unlikely. Third, we probably would not create it, or any technology like it, today. In fact, we would be more likely to cripple it, or declare it illegal.”