The Death Of The Open Internet

Crackerman111 writes "There's an article up on Economy.com's The Dismal Scientist that's sort of a follow up to the /. post a few days ago that talked about how businesses want a new profitable internet."

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[Robber Baron]

Thus, the Internet is evolving into a smarter network, which will allow easy access by dumber terminals.

Uhhh...shouldn't that be dumber users (hopefully with shiny new visa cards)?

The answer isn't smarter networks

[Fatal0E]

What the net needs are smarter users. It's not the amount of information that traverses it that is important, it's the ability to sift through it with an educated, objective mind. Joe Sixpack needs to be elevated and then you'll really start seeing some happenin things being done with the net (not on it). The way I see it, our kids are gonna lead the revolution that changes the way /.'ers see the net, not us.

Re:They did

[einhverfr]

What do you think those blue signs next to the interstate with corporate logos on them are? Normal countries have little symbols to indicate road related services, such as gasoline and hotel, at exits. Here we plaster all that ugly stuff up and let people erect huge billboards that blot out the sky. Thank you Bill Clinton, you sellout.

So, if Microsoft's vision becomes reality, will we see, by the side of the Information Superhighway, blue screens with corporate logos? ;)