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This Could Have Been Your Web

Event SXSW Interactive 2009
Format Panel
Organizer Molly Wright Steenson – Princeton University & Active Social Plastic
Description Punch cards and mainframes. Mosaic. Minitel and the Newton. Many old technologies die for a reason or evolve into the ones we’re familiar with today. But what would the Web be like if they had survived? This panel shows the Web that could have been.
Questions
Answered
  1. What is the story behind each of these technologies' failure?
  2. How did they evolve into other technologies?
  3. Where did they succeed and how?
  4. What is ridiculous about these failures?
  5. Why do some technologies fail where others don't?
  6. How much is success or failure in technology about trends?
  7. What present day technologies will we include in our panel in order to question their futures?
  8. What evolutions are not so readily apparent today?
  9. What weird hybrids do we get when we mash up these dead technologies with new ones?
  10. If all of these technologies had survived, what would the Web look like?
Level Advanced
Category Other
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