Wow! After reading "The web is dead. Long live the Internet" I could not help but to reevaluate the influence apps have on our current technological state. I think that the article is frighteningly accurate. Since dial-up I remember people bragging about the unbeatable, 'un-exceed-able' World Wide Web, and now "Two decades later the World Wide Web is in decline" (Anderson, and Wolf).
According to livinginternet.com, the Soviet Union Launched the first satellite in 1957... "In the 1960's Ted Nelson popularize
d the hypertext concept, and Douglas Engelbart created the first working hypertext systems. In the 1980's, the web itself was invented by Tim Berners-lee and Robert Calliau in Europe, and then it rapidly spread around the world." This means that in less than a generation the newest, most advanced, most popular tool has been outdated!
I understand that a lot of technology surpasses itself by the time it reaches the stores; sometimes, I even feel like there is a new type of cell phone being advertised every day. But to compare a cell phone to the web seems like such an unfair analogy. The Internet to us is like a plow in the 1600's and the cell phone would be more like a rolling pin!
d the hypertext concept, and Douglas Engelbart created the first working hypertext systems. In the 1980's, the web itself was invented by Tim Berners-lee and Robert Calliau in Europe, and then it rapidly spread around the world." This means that in less than a generation the newest, most advanced, most popular tool has been outdated!
I understand that a lot of technology surpasses itself by the time it reaches the stores; sometimes, I even feel like there is a new type of cell phone being advertised every day. But to compare a cell phone to the web seems like such an unfair analogy. The Internet to us is like a plow in the 1600's and the cell phone would be more like a rolling pin!
Granted, I understand the reasons why apps are progressively becoming more, and more popular. Apps are more direct, faster, and generally more accessible. Unlike the web, with apps, there is no need to search; everything you want is right at your figure tips.
I never would have thought that the web would be "the second best" we have been living in a generation of "Google", now we are moving to an age of "apps". I suppose our grandparents felt the same way when they saw a wireless phone for the first time.
I am so cureous to see what the ipod pad equivelant, or the apps equivelent in fifty-years.
I never would have thought that the web would be "the second best" we have been living in a generation of "Google", now we are moving to an age of "apps". I suppose our grandparents felt the same way when they saw a wireless phone for the first time.
I am so cureous to see what the ipod pad equivelant, or the apps equivelent in fifty-years.
Although I do believe that the article was accurate, I have not been personally affected as greatly as many of my peers. I refuse to pay an additional $25/month for the internet on my phone, and for now I am comfortable using the Web for any outstanding internet neccesaties: email, research, facebook, news. However, I am sure it won't be long before I'll need to make the switch from Web to Apps.
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/
http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii.htm
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