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Oh okay maybe that is over cynical. However what was the first bubble? Was it perhaps that the world believed that somehow a combination of tech was going to change the way we lived our lives?
Well, it did, didn't it? At least for tech consumers, anyway? Are not people walking around in a little personal impenetrable bubble of technology with iPods and cells and whatever else hanging off them like bandoliers and gun belts of the Wild West?
Oddly enough, this creates a rather paradoxical effect, where people directly involved with tech become the biggest Luddites. What was wrong with the old Web? The technology? Not likely. The problem that has always existed is that technology doesn't solve problems without proper application, meaning that you need a problem to solve. Tech's a tool. It's there to accomplish a task in a larger abstraction, not to exist by itself. Using the inappropriate tools to accomplish the tasks of a larger abstraction, or by pursuing abstractions which have little value added to anyone is the problem of the Web (which is where online commercial ventures go wrong), not that we're using straight HTML or XHTML.
Personally, I'm waiting for Web 5.5. I hear it cures cancer, balances your checkbook, and cooks you a hot meal (even if only someone you know uses it!). I'd have said Web 5.0, but that version balances your cancer, cooks your checkbook, and cures you of the need for hot meals.
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Oh okay maybe that is over cynical. However what was the first bubble? Was it perhaps that the world believed that somehow a combination of tech was going to change the way we lived our lives?
Well, it did, didn't it? At least for tech consumers, anyway? Are not people walking around in a little personal impenetrable bubble of technology with iPods and cells and whatever else hanging off them like bandoliers and gun belts of the Wild West?
Oddly enough, this creates a rather paradoxical effect, where people directly involved with tech become the biggest Luddites. What was wrong with the old Web? The technology? Not likely. The problem that has always existed is that technology doesn't solve problems without proper application, meaning that you need a problem to solve. Tech's a tool. It's there to accomplish a task in a larger abstraction, not to exist by itself. Using the inappropriate tools to accomplish the tasks of a larger abstraction, or by pursuing abstractions which have little value added to anyone is the problem of the Web (which is where online commercial ventures go wrong), not that we're using straight HTML or XHTML.
Personally, I'm waiting for Web 5.5. I hear it cures cancer, balances your checkbook, and cooks you a hot meal (even if only someone you know uses it!). I'd have said Web 5.0, but that version balances your cancer, cooks your checkbook, and cures you of the need for hot meals.