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"It is unclear who would accept the prize if the internet were to win." No doubt. The internet is a passive tool; it's the people and organizations using it fo
by ascuttlefish 17y ago
"It is unclear who would accept the prize if the internet were to win."
No doubt. The internet is a passive tool; it's the people and organizations using it for good who should be winning prizes. The Nobel Peace Prize should be less nebulous, and for concrete achievement. (Edited for grammar.)
- clistctrl 17y agoI would give it to CERN
- sp332 17y agoI would give the medal to Vint Cerf and the money to the Internet Archive.
- novum 17y agoMaybe the W3C? Tim Berners-Lee deserves it.
- sp332 17y agoThat's the World-Wide Web, not the Internet. The Internet enables email, IM & IRC, online gaming, SSH, online backups, voice & video conferencing, and the World-Wide Web.
- gcheong 17y agoDARPA then?
- jriddycuz 17y agoWhy not? The irony of giving a peace prize to a military organization would clearly escape the grasp of this increasingly irrelevant group of nominators.
- anamax 17y ago> Why not? The irony of giving a peace prize to a military organization would clearly escape the grasp of this increasingly irrelevant group of nominators. Western Europe was liberated by military organizations. The resulting several decades of peace had something to do with military organizations as well. Short of Norman Borlaug, military organizations have produced more peace than anyone else.
- jriddycuz 17y agoGood point, and with a few qualifications I agree with you. But the actual intent of the prize, as expressed by Alfred Nobel himself, mentions the reduction of standing armies as a qualification for receiving the award.
- fnid2 17y agoCut the shenanigans and just nominate TBL! He actually deserves it. He hasn't sought out peace, as another commented suggested the prize should focus on, but indirectly, he's caused a lot of peace through communication.