The protocols and technologies on the web, and even at large the internet, served as a great technology preview. The workhorses of SMTP, FTP, HTTP(S), PHP, HTML and Javascript each helped contribute to the sort of rich cloud-based applications we see today such as Google’s Drive, Facebook and Twitter, not to mention the countless other applications ranging through games, shopping, banking and dating. However, going into the future, much of these protocols and technologies will have to be re-engineered according to our new understandings of the interaction between society and technology.
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