I was trying to make the web more civil. I was trying to make it more elegant. I got rid of anonymity. I combined a thousand disparate elements into one unified system. But I didn’t picture a world where Circle membership was mandatory, where all government and all life was channeled through one network. Dave Eggers
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I was trying to make the web more civil. I was trying to make it more elegant. I got rid of anonymity. I combined a thousand disparate elements into one unified system.

But I didn't picture a world where Circle membership was mandatory, where all government and all life was channeled through one network. In this quote, Ted Nelson explains how he attempted to make the internet as a whole as civil as possible by removing the anonymity that is part of the web today. He wanted users to have a certain amount of privacy in their interactions with other people on the internet.

However, his vision did not come to fruition and instead we see that we live in a society that is dominated by technology and one that is completely dependent on technology for living.

Source: The Circle

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