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What the Web Was and What It Has Become

posted by martyb on Friday November 03 2017, @11:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the took-a-wrong-turn dept.

canopic jug writes:

The Web began dying in 2014. André Staltz writes about how and why. In a nutshell, traffic from mobile and tablet devices now surpasses that from regular desktop computers and of that traffic the overwhelming majority goes to either Faecebook or Google. Amazon is also in there. None of them have any interest in defending the open Web any more. Rather the situation is the opposite, they are aiming to carve out a section and establish very isolated walled gardens. Net Neutrality, or the lack thereof, lie at the heart of their plans based on the direction they have moved since 2014.

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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @02:13AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @02:13AM (#592006)

    and eventually so is the fate of the web.

    We are about 3 or 4 generations away from ceasing to be human in the classic sense. Homo sapiens is evolving toward extinction, to be replaced by homo robitiens, AI-programmed, DNA-engineered commodity beings with no vestiges of individuality, critical thinking, or originality.

    "Legacy" humans lacking technological improvements will be preserved as lab/zoo specimens, if at all.

    Welcome to the future we're creating right now.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:38AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:38AM (#592059)

    I welcome this future.

  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @04:05AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @04:05AM (#592064)

    replaced by (...) beings with no vestiges of individuality, critical thinking, or originality.

    The real problem is, how will we notice the change :)