But the most difficult challenge — both to grasp and to solve — of the cloud is its effect on our freedom to innovate.
This freedom is at risk in the cloud, where the vendor of a platform has much more control over whether and how to let others write new software.
And many software developers who once would have been writing whatever they wanted for PCs are simply developing less adventurous, less subversive, less game-changing code under the watchful eyes of Facebook and Apple.
USA Today, long the country's largest newspaper by weekday circulation, said it had experienced a circulation decline, which is likely to knock it down to No. 2." />
For my greatest concern is that the young brain will never have the time (in milliseconds or in hours or in years) to learn to go deeper into the text after the first decoding, but rather will be pulled by the medium to ever more distracting information, sidebars, and now,perhaps, videos (in the new vooks).
Found this interesting, if for no other reason than as proof that the world at large is thinking about the implications of moving even past Web 2.0 and on to Web 3.0
(My apologies -- while I have referenced the article as translated by Babelfish, the original article is in French so the English may be a bit choppy; the ideas seem to remain intact, however, and the author's speculations about the future of the Web are interesting).
Original link, for those who read French: http://pro.01net.com/editorial/506930/que-nous-prepare-le-web-3-0/