Reading
I rather enjoyed this article. Though the ADD-ish, over-bulleted (in my opinion) style makes it easier to scan the quick points and pictures than actually read the piece through from beginning to end, I still managed to concentrate long enough to get the gist.
The author describes one possible near-future version (3–5 years) of the interweb. His vision takes many of the elements and entities that exist today and smooshes them together in a way that is simultaneously more centralized and more distributed.
This is what *I* have envisioned the internet becoming, as well (though not in as much detail). I’m psyched; the future’s gonna ROCK.
I only wish I were younger and could grow up with all this, but I suppose that feeling is the same for every generation. Le sigh. At least I’ll be able to tell my grandkids crazy stories about life in the early days of the internet, when we had to decide FOR OURSELVES what cleaning services to use and web pages to visit. Rough times, these.
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