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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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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