The future of the Internet — from SmashingMagazine.com by Dan Redding
The Internet is a medium that is evolving at breakneck speed. It’s a wild organism of sweeping cultural change — one that leaves the carcasses of dead media forms in its sizeable wake. It’s transformative: it has transformed the vast globe into a ‘global village’ and it has drawn human communication away from print-based media and into a post-Gutenberg digital era. Right now, its perils are equal to its potential. The debate over ‘net neutrality’ is at a fever pitch. There is a tug-of-war going on between an ‘open web’ and a more governed form of the web (like the Apple-approved apps on the iPad/iPhone) that has more security but less freedom.
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I very much relate to Dan Redding’s statement, “The Internet is a medium that is evolving at breakneck speed.”
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…and, speaking of leaving things in the wake….here’s another graphic that comes to mind:
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