Gelernter, David. "The End of the Web, Search, and Computer as We Know It." Wired, February 1, 2013.
From the article: "People ask what the next web will be like, but there won’t be a
next web.
The space-based web we currently have will gradually be replaced by a
time-based worldstream. It’s already happening, and it all began with the lifestream,
a phenomenon that I (with Eric Freeman) predicted in the 1990s and shared in the pages of Wired
almost exactly 16 years ago.
This lifestream — a heterogeneous, content-searchable, real-time messaging stream — arrived in the form of blog posts and RSS feeds, Twitter and other chatstreams, and Facebook walls and timelines. Its structure represented a shift beyond the “flatland known as the desktop” (where our interfaces ignored the temporal dimension) towards streams, which flow and can therefore serve as a concrete representation of time.
It’s a bit like moving from a desktop to a magic diary: Picture a diary whose pages turn automatically, tracking your life moment to moment … Until you touch it, and then, the page-turning stops. The diary becomes a sort of reference book: a complete and searchable guide to your life. Put it down, and the pages start turning again." Read more
