It seems to be an old video, but I just discovered it recently and I though it could be interesting to linked it here.

A masterly lecture by Alex Wright, author of “Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages”, where he reviews the works of the early precursos of the Web: Eugene Garfield, Vannevar Bush, Ted Nelson, etc  and how their works has inspired and somehow shape the Web as we know it today. It came to my mind a Paul Baran quote I read once where he recognized that technology progress was accumulative, “If you don’t take care”, he said, “you may end up thinking you have done a big contribution, but in fact, every contribution relies on some other previous work”. Or to put it in Isaac Newton’s words “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants“. Enjoy!