"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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