Jean-François Abramatic, director of research from Inria*, president of the W3 consortium.

   

« The technical development of Internet is the object of an original approach where collective conceptualisation is based on a certain amount of individual initiatives »

 

 

« Presently where Internet plays the role of an infrastructure in an information society, its evolution becomes fundamental for a constantly growing number of new actors. Internet itself offers henceforth the means which allow these evolutions to be presented, discussed and modified in a more efficient way (…) ».

 

In order that the « collective conception», evoked by J.-F. Abramatic, becomes more than a simple accumulation of individual initiatives it becomes necessary to reach a new threshold of complexity, out of which should emerge new characteristics, notably by triggering the systems of self-organisation. Experiences in the fields of biology, physics or mathematics have proven that each new level of complexity reveals new laws.

 

* Jean-François Abramatic is the author of the report on « Développement technique de l’Internet » produced within the framework of the program for governmental action for the information society. Report available only in french: http://mission-dti.inria.fr

 

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