“Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.”
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We could say we want the Web to reflect a vision of the world where everything is done democratically. To do that, we get computers to talk with each other in such a way as to promote that ideal.
Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.
Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.
The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.
