Web is not dead.
Web is Dead: introducing the temporal web
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Re: Web is Dead: introducing the temporal web
#12I have long thought that a doc centric view could unite apps and web much better.
Obviously docs we use every day are doc centric. Although the holy grail of easily embedding and linking docs has not been achieved.
Games and other "session" type interaction should simply be docs. You create a new game session, you could have several. You pick up each session by opening it. You can back up sessions yourself if the app doesn't let you, or you just prefer to do so. You are in "control" of you own data, i.e. game state. (Identity management can allow transferred/leg-up games to be easily differentiated from true one person game accomplishment.)
Accounts are just docs. A doc shared by two owners with data and state that gets appended as it is used. Much easier to have two accounts with your financial exchange or bank, or anyone else if you like, without special custom support for that kind of thing.
Apps, web or native, take a back seat. They can be auto dowloaded as needed. App folders become just caches as docs know what apps or app classes they need.
Most doc creation is simply a duplication of a template with no parameters, or perhaps a simple configuration of creator/viewer/owner/capability parameters. (i.e. an energy utility account.)
Because everything is a doc, users can organize them, back them up, etc. Own their own data.
A lot more thought could go into this. But there is no reason why the code behind different doc types would matter much - native, web, etc. once the limitations of those platforms for this simpler model were ironed out. Why should the user ever have to care or be aware of platform choices?
Re: Web is Dead: introducing the temporal web
#13Web is not dead.
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Re: Web is Dead: introducing the temporal web
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
i apparently failed at getting my message across... c'est la vie !
I hope I was not too harsh in my comment. There are a lot of disparate threads in the article. If you wanted to get one point across, what would that be? Web3 isn't an easy concept to understand because it has 'web' in the name, yet it can't be accessed via the clearweb, only via browser extensions, or mirror sites. The NFT site "hicetnunc" went down recently, with little to no explanation and people on Twitter recom…
my article is not really about web3, just using the analogy to touch on "layer 2" and introduce the idea of querying your interactions with a website _over time_ : hence the "temporal web"
Re: Web is Dead: introducing the temporal web
#15I have long thought that a doc centric view could unite apps and web much better. Obviously docs we use every day are doc centric. Although the holy grail of easily embedding and linking docs has not been achieved. Games and other "session" type interaction should simply be docs. You create a new game session, you could have several. You pick up each session by opening it. You can back up sessions yourself if the app…
ah super interesting, universal doc centric view
thanks for sharing!
Re: Web is Dead: introducing the temporal web
#16I have long thought that a doc centric view could unite apps and web much better. Obviously docs we use every day are doc centric. Although the holy grail of easily embedding and linking docs has not been achieved. Games and other "session" type interaction should simply be docs. You create a new game session, you could have several. You pick up each session by opening it. You can back up sessions yourself if the app…
Working on this myself, evolved from a personal notepad I built about 12 years ago. Inverting the data / app relationship is super powerful, it's not quite sufficient to live in alone though, I had to make my platform fit the base truth of known reality before it was natural and simple to live in.
Basically, a notepad that grandma and tech intelligencia can interop on is unbelievably powerful.