Google's chief evangelist shared his vision of hope and gloom for the web at the recent Edinburgh International Television Festival.
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While his vision told of internet growth, innovation and expansion, he also shared some concerns for our ability to keep it secure and preserve the valuable information it contains.
"The biggest hole we have is with internet browsers, because we have too much access to the functionality of the operating system..." he shared, highlighting this made it easy for viruses and malicious programs like "Trojans" to take control of a computer.
These security risks, compounded by the increasing prevalence of poor software design, were his greatest concerns for the future of the web. He said during his talk:
"We worry about reliability and resilience at Google, to ensure that the loss of a data centre doesn't affect everybody.... I don't know whether 1,000 years from now information that might have been valuable and could have been preserved if it was written on vellum, won't be preserved because it's written in bits."
Let's just hope his positive visions are embraced, and the net we all know continues to grow and innovate, whilst we take the time to invest in the security of this invaluable resource. It would be a travesty if the information was ever lost simply due to hast and complacency.
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