Per Wired Magazine via MSNBC: The Web is Dead.

[Subdivisions]

The future of the web is not on your desktop or sitting on your lap. The future is in "apps" for your mobile devices - that IF you own one, which I do not and do not want to own.

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/08/ff_webrip/all/1

Why do the words "net neutrality is dead" come to mind?

[Common Sense Party]

1. Well, if MSNBC says so, that clinches it!

Frankly, I'd say our future is in our laps--at least, that's close to where the baby-making parts are.

[tridim]

2. Disgusting. Everything is going pay-per-whatever

I will not be participating in Steve Jobs' dream.

By definition the Internet is for the people, not for corporations and their annoying "apps".

[Subdivisions]

4. It is disgusting. They've figured out a way to profit from apps

and just paying a monthly rate for internet service at home limits the ability of corporations to diversify their profits.

They are literally trying to take the Internet as we have known and loved it away from us unless we first buy a mobile device that can handle apps that will themselves carry a price. Once this is done, everything we are able to do and see online will be controlled by some corporation.

[tridim]

6. They're completely free to play by our rules.

And they are also free to get the hell off our network and create their own.

I really hope the public is aware of what is going on here, but I fear they're not. Right now it seems like the only people that care about this issue are the people who actually built the Internet during the past two decades.

This is the most pure attack on freedom that I have ever seen.

[DatManFromNawlins]

3. Because the person who wrote the article is a moron

Their reasoning is that the volume of pure web traffic in contrast to P2P and video downloads has decreased percentage-wise.

Uh, duh. Perhaps that's because your average web page weighs in at about 120KB and your average video weighs in at 10MB+.

But that's meaningless. The way that internet traffic has always been and will continue to be measured is via hits and impressions. I have a video site that hosts multiple terrabytes of original content. I have a related website that hosts gigabytes of photos and articles. Traffic by download volume is in favor of the video site. Yet my article/photo site is the one that advertisers are willing to shell out thousands of dollars for one ad spot for one month.

[slampoet]

5. The same data distortion was followed when in the mid 90's the press said FTP was more than WEB

in amount of traffic.

IT was just that at the time FTP did larger files and WEB did smaller ones.

[meegbear]

7. Read "The Web is Dead" at the wired.com website ...

DUH!