MS#165. The WWW and Existential Threats, 2023 Subjects: Computer Science, Politics Abstract: In 1994 we had high hopes for the newly-founded World Wide Web, as an antidote to global fears. Now, 30 years later, not so much. Here, I update this initial optimism with a litany of fears of existential threats, old and new and conclude with a new optimism. Written September 3, 2023. [PDF] 18 pages, 528 KB Last revised by Ralph Abraham