Recently I have been receiving emails telling me my email account has new terms of service and I should sign up to them if I want to keep my account – followed by a spurious web address that manages to have the name of the email host included.
I remember Tim Bernes-Lee giving the world wide web free to the world as a repository of knowledge and the greatest gift or ingathering ever in human history. Today we see it used for espionage, fraud and sex to such an extent it almost drowns out the optimism with which it was given.
I wish the scientific community had patented the protocols and kept business at bay. Now they are trying to create a new Internet for the refugees from the horror show the old one has become. My warning to anyone with an immensely important new idea – as a species we have not yet learnt how to rise to the challenge of having an intellect.