NVDL: The new adage is Cloud Age, which is what is suggests. Putting things into the ether. While previously people were reluctant to store stuff on the Web (bank details, emails, images, diaries, medical records, correspondence), we now do so willy nilly.
Because of this, browsing needs to change quite fundamentally. Chrome is a start, and its logo looks like a mixture of UFO, a stealth toy and a weather balloon.
My suggestion is that the nature - the idea - of a browser is already obsolete. What we want now is something far more instantaneous, more efficient (the name browser sounds like a small creature rummaging at length through piles of garbage). The next step, I put it to you, is a Tracker. It's part torrent, it's based to some extent on file-sharing, allowing Near-to-Now best-possible navigation by intuitively finding what's easiest to track (and not freezing or crashing when source code is unavailable or break down).
Anyone want to join me in taking on Chrome, IE and Firefox?
Because of this, browsing needs to change quite fundamentally. Chrome is a start, and its logo looks like a mixture of UFO, a stealth toy and a weather balloon.
My suggestion is that the nature - the idea - of a browser is already obsolete. What we want now is something far more instantaneous, more efficient (the name browser sounds like a small creature rummaging at length through piles of garbage). The next step, I put it to you, is a Tracker. It's part torrent, it's based to some extent on file-sharing, allowing Near-to-Now best-possible navigation by intuitively finding what's easiest to track (and not freezing or crashing when source code is unavailable or break down).
Anyone want to join me in taking on Chrome, IE and Firefox?
Now, however, functions that previously could be performed only on the desktop — email, spreadsheets, database management — are increasingly handled online. In the coming era of cloud computing, the Web will be much more than just a means of delivering content — it will be a platform in its own right. The problem with revamping existing browsers to accommodate this concept is that they have developed an ecology of add-on extensions (toolbars, RSS readers, etc.) that would be hopelessly disrupted by a radical upgrade. "As a Firefox developer, you love to innovate, but you're always worried that it means in the next version all the extensions will be broken," Fisher says. "And indeed, that's what happens." The conclusion was obvious: Only by building its own software could Google bring the browser into the cloud age and potentially trigger a spiral of innovation not seen since Microsoft and Netscape one-upped each other almost monthly.
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