person
also known as Berners-Lee
Inventor of the web's protocols, present in Bob's p.134 as an example of the technologist who arrives after the fact. In Bob's reading the internet was not offered to a living public but made available to McLuhan's planet of the dead, already dead by the 1970s — and Berners-Lee belongs with the Silicon Valley figures now advocating a media ecology they cannot practise. New to him — dialogue 65.
Across the dialogues
65
Recast from inventor to unwitting deliverer — the HTTP protocols are said to have made the internet available to a planet that was already dead
The invention is dated against the condition it entered — which makes the web a delivery to an existing situation rather than the cause of one.
"Tim Berners-Lee and his team invented the HTTP protocols while employed at CERN in Geneva. He made the Internet available to the planet of the dead."Bob Dobbs, The Resonant Interval, Dialogue 65 (16 Feb 2023), 1:43:07
Connections
connects toAndroid Meme
Bob counts him among the technologists now alarmed by what they helped release.