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Twenty years on from the invention of the World Wide Web, Dr Aleks Krotoski looks at how it
is reshaping almost every aspect of our lives. Joined by some of the web's biggest names -
including the founders of Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft, and the web's
inventor - she explores how far the web has lived up to its early promise.
In the first in this four-part series, Aleks charts the extraordinary rise of blogs, Wikipedia and
YouTube, and traces an ongoing clash between the freedom the technology offers us, and
our innate human desire to control and profit.
6. The Net has been hailed as the great leveler, a new frontier that gives us equal
__________ _______________________
10. What’s the difference between how knowledge is transmitted now and before
the advent of the Internet?
11. According to the author of “Against the Machine”, a lot of people ___________
________________________Wikipedia but still use it throughout the day.
12. What’s the price you have to pay for Wikipedia’s convenience, speed and
availability?