I think the Great Weirding has finally hit the tech stack. Everything I'm seeing happening to the consumer web experience seems in some way a response to the huge stress test the web 2.0 tech stack endured in 2015-18 due to major pattern failures
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Hmm... what's happening now is actually what I called out in 2012 in this August 2010 blog post which is equal parts prescient and cringe given what I knew at the time. None of the products I cite, including my own, has survived, but we saw this coming.https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2010/08/17/the-greasy-fix-it-web-of-intent-vision/ …
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Oddly enough, though a core piece of it (React) came out of mobile imperatives, none of this is mobile-centric. It's almost as if heavy apps and a mobile-centric experience are missing from the equation. This is a browser-level renaissance.
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If I tentatively tag "something something blockchain" as the 4.0 era starting ~2025-30, I *do* not mean things that look like crypto/blockchain ideological visions of today. I mean something built out of the parts being tested today via trial and error.
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Specifically, I do *not* think we're headed to a p2p utopia of Sovereign Individuals. Ideologues with that bent who vaguely sealion me every time I tweet about this stuff remind me strongly of SemWeb/OWL ideologues from early aughts.
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Specifically, the ways in which SemWeb-flavored ideas are actually finally making their way into production web (ht
@doriantaylor) don't look at all like the visions the ideologues were painting circa 2004-09. Something similar is going to happen to blockchain/decentralized webShow this thread -
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Anyhow, good times starting again. To the extent medium is the message, new messages require new media, and new media demand new messages, so like it or not, everybody making content of any sort has to go through a stack refactor to engage with this stuff
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I should add, something something logs/event stream processing as a low-level organizing abstraction has something here. Web 2.0 was basically inaugurated by IE enabling the AJAX pattern. Something kinda at that level of enablement seems to be happening.
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The web’s been a data substrate, but there’s an emergent computational superstrate wherein humans become functions that facilitate the operation of something vast and deeply interconnected and motivated in ways that are hard to model but possessed of definite agency? Webregore?
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Semantic web didn’t work the first time around because we didn’t have the machine learning algorithms to consume it. (I’ll stop tweeting at you now, but this is all really interesting!)
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