We are in the final years of our internet
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We are in the final years of our internet
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Re: We are in the final years of our internet
#2This is somewhat all over the place without a lot of supporting evidence.
Is the author suggesting that the web will die, and be replaced by thousands of special purpose apps that must be downloaded from the app store?
Re: We are in the final years of our internet
#3>Whatsapp has won messaging, text and instant. What will Twitter and Skype do?
Seriously? Operating a centralized walled garden does not satisfy any definition of won messaging when you consider the architecture of the internet.
Nobody has won instant messaging until they all interoperate on the same capacity that email is interoperable, defined by an RFC.
Re: We are in the final years of our internet
#4This is somewhat all over the place without a lot of supporting evidence. Is the author suggesting that the web will die, and be replaced by thousands of special purpose apps that must be downloaded from the app store?
Zynga could be considered evidence. There is nothing so special about other classes of applications that make them immune.
Re: We are in the final years of our internet
#5>Whatsapp has won messaging, text and instant. What will Twitter and Skype do? Seriously? Operating a centralized walled garden does not satisfy any definition of won messaging when you consider the architecture of the internet. Nobody has won instant messaging until they all interoperate on the same capacity that email is interoperable, defined by an RFC.
I hadn't even heard of Whatsapp until I saw it mentioned here.
Re: We are in the final years of our internet
#6Every generation must discover, and embellish in its own way, panics about the "Imminent Death of the Net".
Re: We are in the final years of our internet
#7This is somewhat all over the place without a lot of supporting evidence. Is the author suggesting that the web will die, and be replaced by thousands of special purpose apps that must be downloaded from the app store?
Zynga could be considered evidence. There is nothing so special about other classes of applications that make them immune.
Not sure what Zynga is evidence of?
Re: We are in the final years of our internet
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#9This is somewhat all over the place without a lot of supporting evidence. Is the author suggesting that the web will die, and be replaced by thousands of special purpose apps that must be downloaded from the app store?
Peeling back the exterior and getting at the meat of the argument, I think the author is really arguing that the future "makers" of things are having their perception of the internet and computing shaped by their interactions with walled garden devices and controlled environments. Building off of this, they will proceed to continue perpetuating a world emphasized by unique apps and walled gardens instead of the creativity of current and prior hacker generations. What would be really interesting is if the author did a study looking at past generations and how their initial perception of connectivity shaped what they built using it. I.E. all the phone phreakers and hardware hackers in the 70s and 80s laying the foundation for modern computing.
Re: We are in the final years of our internet
#10Every generation must discover, and embellish in its own way, panics about the "Imminent Death of the Net".
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