In 1999 Neal Stephenson, a writer of science fiction and technology experts, published in the U.S. on the essay "In the Beginning Was the Command Line", a book, unfortunately never translated in Italy, in which he summarized the history of computing so that for all.
The period focused on Stephenson is the seventies, a period in which those Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple with the intent to produce and sell computers to families, while Bill Gates and Paul Allen, pushed even further, with the idea to create Microsoft to sell "operating systems".
In those years have witnessed pioneering actions in which creativity and innovation are targeted - more or less consciously - is to manage something intangible that a series of zeroes and ones "written on a magnetic medium is a sell hardware and software elements at the base of the digital economy.
This is the scenario, not older than forty years, it is paramount in the eyes of the viewer of today's multifunctional applications made through a device with limited dimensions and light weight.
The idea of \u200b\u200bStephenson helps me to think, by analogy, on what today is the use of new communication technologies and social consequences that will outline future scenarios.
history shows that rights evolve regulating social conduct, the economies are modified on the basis of the market, men change triggering new communications strategies.
At this point, the Internet, albeit with its unpredictability, it can be framed as a convergent technology, neutral, democratic, or rather a tool with which, through shared standards and protocols, you can single out public and private services such as social networks, television, cinema, productivity and information or simply convey any data of interest between two parties.
Governance of the political will to regulate access to the Internet and conduct on Internet, then the underlying rights, is the challenge that will characterize the next few years as well as the palette with which colored the future "digital scenarios."
Freedom of access to the Net, freedoms and duties thing or not what the car can not be mediated by pre-existing right, we must analyze and study new legislation dictates that - hopefully - shared among democratic states.
In this process we are all called to work, paying particular attention to the network will be developed while maintaining the spirit of participation and sharing of knowledge contained in its genesis.
Personally, maybe because influenced by professional experience, I think it's demagogic believe that the Internet should be a place free from any regulations because they do not consider the assumption that "Internet is for everyone, but not all are for the internet" and therefore should, in the absence of a conscious and responsible use, curb criminality.
The proper balance between freedom and responsibilities on the Internet is the challenge which has to be overcome in order to guarantee the freedom and the cultural future of coming generations, remembering that the modern Big Bang "was, in principle, a line of command "with p ochi bit but a lot of creativity and innovation.
