Sunday, August 22, 2010

'The web is dead, long live the internet.'

"According to the latest cover story in tech bible Wired, 'The web is dead, long live the internet.' The headline is attached to a feature by the magazine's editor-in-chief, Chris Anderson, outlining what he calls the abandonment of 'the open, unfettered web... for simpler, sleeker services'. It has generated a huge reaction online.

Are we heading for a less romantic digital world, in which open-ended surfing of the web is replaced by an ordered world phone 'apps', tailored to individual preferences? A world in which 'gated digital communities' – whether comprising virtual gamers or fitness fanatics – organise themselves ever more efficiently but ignore the wider web-based possibility of the unexpected."
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Are phone Apps killing the web's original spirit of fresh discovery? | Technology | The Observer

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