I wish the author pointed the spotlight at an increasing bloat of the general Internet traffic.
Comparing to Internet early days we now have communication pipes of gigantic bandwidth... yet somehow they get overrun, ISPs still peddle more bandwidth for more coins.
Ratio of usable content to aux (scripting, ads, cosmetics) just keeps dropping. The pages are not only byte heavy, they now CPU heavy (due to scripting, SSL etc).
In retrospect, I'd rather wonder wheather the current __implementation__ of Internet is the right one. Perhaps now one could envision an alternative implementation, leaner, more secure (or less reliant on that), more analog/human?
After all the base purpose for Internet was to connect computers, now it's used to connect people lives.
Comparing to Internet early days we now have communication pipes of gigantic bandwidth... yet somehow they get overrun, ISPs still peddle more bandwidth for more coins.
Ratio of usable content to aux (scripting, ads, cosmetics) just keeps dropping. The pages are not only byte heavy, they now CPU heavy (due to scripting, SSL etc).
In retrospect, I'd rather wonder wheather the current __implementation__ of Internet is the right one. Perhaps now one could envision an alternative implementation, leaner, more secure (or less reliant on that), more analog/human?
After all the base purpose for Internet was to connect computers, now it's used to connect people lives.