The Web Is Dead. Long Live The Internet

In an article written by Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff, "The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet," the two discuss the slow death of the world wide web as it is slowly phased out by smartphones, new technology, and Web 2.0. With the new emergence of applications on iPhones and smartphones such as Blackberrys, it is easy to agree the furture of the web is obsolete. People no longer depend on laptop or desktop computers for directions or social networking. They are able to find things like that while on the go or nearly anywhere with a dataplan or WiFi connections. Is this neccessarily a bad thing? The article seems to think yes and no.

“Sure, we’ll always have Web pages. We still have postcards and telegrams, don’t we? But the center of interactive media — increasingly, the center of gravity of all media — is moving to a post-HTML environment, we promised nearly a decade and half ago. The examples of the time were a bit silly — a '3-D furry-muckers VR space' and 'headlines sent to a pager' — but the point was altogether prescient: a glimpse of the machine-to-machine future that would be less about browsing and more about getting." (Anderson,Wolff, 2009)

The Web, they say, is shrinking and rapidly. It was an inevitable fate brought on by the capitalist innovators of the new media. As the innovators come out with new technology to sell like iPhones and smartphones, the past generation of technology is almost immediately phased out. It becomes irrelevant, forgotten, and a dinosaur among people and their peers. New HTML data is the furture of the internet. There is no more coding and fancy ways of typing out a paragraph to publish it. It is all done automatically. Easy and simple and that is the way people want to live and experience the Web these days especially when they are using it on their phone in the middle of no where in particular.

People want things brought to them and given to them. Nobody likes to look and browse through anything. People know exactly what they want and when they want it and they are more than willing to empty their pockets of cash in order to get that service. The web is dying and it is because people want to live an easier life and corporate innovators are looking for new technology to target lazier people with.