Comment on Locking the Web Open: A Call for a Distributed WebparentComments−genghisjahn11yI'm still chewing on this myself. The previous interstate analogy was more of a, "I think I think this."−nekopa11yFair enough.−scholia11yThe Interstate analogy was used to encourage the adoption of the Internet.Al Gore Senior "was instrumental in sponsoring and enacting the legislation creating the Interstate Highway System". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gore,_Sr.Al Gore Junior, the former US vice president, "promoted legislation that funded an expansion of the ARPANET, allowing greater public access, and helping to develop the Internet". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_information_techno...Al Gore certainly saw the parallels with what his father had done, and the "information superhighway" phrase was a direct reference.
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I'm still chewing on this myself. The previous interstate analogy was more of a, "I think I think this."
Fair enough.
The Interstate analogy was used to encourage the adoption of the Internet.
Al Gore Senior "was instrumental in sponsoring and enacting the legislation creating the Interstate Highway System". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Gore,_Sr.
Al Gore Junior, the former US vice president, "promoted legislation that funded an expansion of the ARPANET, allowing greater public access, and helping to develop the Internet". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Gore_and_information_techno...
Al Gore certainly saw the parallels with what his father had done, and the "information superhighway" phrase was a direct reference.