Splintering…the web starts to unravel…
February 1st, 2010 by adminI have been reading some interesting post-iPad observations on the ‘t’internet as Peter Kay’s mum would call it and it all pointing to a happier bunch of mums and a way sadder and less happy bunch of ‘geeks’ or whatever you want to call us bloggers, internet users etc etc
Basically this means that ‘tethered applications’ and a kind of ‘ring-fencing’ of creativity and open-ness has started to creep into the web. This may mean that Peter Kay’s mum can simply book a expensive ryanair flight or swim around facebook but for the rest of us the long arms of capitalism seem to have finally found a way to literally ‘tether’ freedom.
Jonathan Zittrain’s book ‘The future of the internet and how to stop it’ seems even more prophetic than when first published in 2008 and all the debate flying around about the iPad and its meaning seem connected with his concepts of tethered applications.
http://futureoftheinternet.org/
