I Don’t Think That Word Means What You Think It Means [Web is Dead]
There is so much to like in this well written rebuttal to the much talked about Wired cover piece titled “The Web is Dead” (maybe they should have titled it “Wired is Relevant Again!”) that I will leave you with the opening graph and trust you to click the link and read it in entirety.
This is the basic problem with the Chris Anderson-anchored Wired cover story, “The Web is Dead.” If you think about technology as a series of waves, each displacing the last, perhaps the rise of mobile apps would lead you to conclude that the browser-based web is a goner.
But the browser-based web is not a goner. It’s still experiencing substantial growth — as BoingBoing’s Rob Beschizza showed with his excellent recasting of Wired’s data — and that should be one big clue that the technological worldview that says, “The new inevitably destroys the old,” is fundamentally flawed.
[From What’s Wrong With ‘X Is Dead’ – Science and Tech – The Atlantic]
[Editor’s Note: Jeff cross-posted this on his personal blog. Images courtesy of boing boing and Wired. –mrh]
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