ll web, as we know, existed for about fifteen years, a pittance when you consider what has already changed our lives. Since 2001, instead of talking about Internet 2.0, the new Information Age , where the user becomes prosumer , or both producer and consumer of data and information. The frenzy that accompanies the development of the network causes, besides a rapid progress and confused, even some apocalyptic paranoia that primarily affects geek , lovers of new technology.
apocalypse daily. This sense of imminent catastrophe houses the web has always pushing it to innovate and to destroy not be destroyed. You then drive a positive and constructive, but has a minor side effects, a perceived insecurity, caused by the rumors about how one day everything will become obsolete and disappear.
Some examples: only in recent weeks, experts have performed a web high number De Profundis . He started Wired USA predicting the imminent death of the web , meant just as www, the network where you sail from the mid nineties, and announcing the birth of a new vision of the Web, dominated by the app and other technologies developed with the boom of mobile .
Then came a TechCrunch , announcing that the possible birth of a client by e-mail Facebook weblog (and the infamous mysterious Titan Project ) has already nicknamed "Killer Gmail" , a prelude to a near death and rebirth of the e-mail as we know it for years.
Finally, a few days ago, also said the U.S. has decreed megasite the end of the phone calls, go over and wiped out by competition from new media and text messages from friendly fire.
Vultures 2.0 Sure, it's worth pointing out that TechCrunch is a kind of Bible of the technology and the Wired article , less the tone of Armageddon, contains interesting reflections, and therefore should be taken into consideration. But there is a risk that their continuous circling of vultures around carcasses of the Web (suspected or real), then generate a slight disappointment and anger. When, perhaps in a few years, we will continue to call, use Gmail and type the www, some might remember the oracles past and ask, "hey, but in the end nothing happened?", Feeling slightly taken for a ride.
Time will tell. Meanwhile, we try to keep calm and concentrate on the real and near apocalypse.
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