I actually hope Google gains complete dominance over the Web, and that in response, a meaningful coalition of powerful companies moves to do something better.
The whole thing - web browsers, web servers, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc - is so incredibly stupid, from a regular person's point of view. Programmers love all this shit, because Programmers just want to sit in a cave and play with their legos. But normal humans just want to do something. They just want to compute X, or move Y, or talk to Z. They don't want to hear excuses from Programmers about how hand-crafting 15 bazillion frameworks in googledy-gook languages is The Future. They do not care. They just want their life to be easier. And it takes a metric shit-ton of bullshit to make the Web useful enough to just get shit done.
Start a server. Install an operating system. Install a web server. Install an application. Design an HTML, CSS, and JavaScript web application user interface. Design a server-side application processor. Handle the storage, indexing, retrieval, transformation, authentication, authorization, encryption, deployment, backup, load balancing, and everything else. Learn 30 different tools and systems and frameworks and 10 different languages and 500 different paradigms and make something so complex that Leonardo would call you a genius if you could somehow explain it all.
All for little Jimmy to tell his teacher he's got the measles and is staying home from school. Or Margaret to order a replacement driver's license from the DMV. Or Kumar to order a pizza.
There are much better ways we could be using technology to solve people's problems than the jumble of bullshit we have today. But the jumble is propped up by trillions of dollars, hundreds of millions of jobs, and entire nations worth of infrastructure. Until one player dominates it all and controls it, nobody has a reason to upset the apple cart.
I hope Google does become the evil empire, so the rebels will see the chains on their hands and finally begin the fight.
The whole thing - web browsers, web servers, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc - is so incredibly stupid, from a regular person's point of view. Programmers love all this shit, because Programmers just want to sit in a cave and play with their legos. But normal humans just want to do something. They just want to compute X, or move Y, or talk to Z. They don't want to hear excuses from Programmers about how hand-crafting 15 bazillion frameworks in googledy-gook languages is The Future. They do not care. They just want their life to be easier. And it takes a metric shit-ton of bullshit to make the Web useful enough to just get shit done.
Start a server. Install an operating system. Install a web server. Install an application. Design an HTML, CSS, and JavaScript web application user interface. Design a server-side application processor. Handle the storage, indexing, retrieval, transformation, authentication, authorization, encryption, deployment, backup, load balancing, and everything else. Learn 30 different tools and systems and frameworks and 10 different languages and 500 different paradigms and make something so complex that Leonardo would call you a genius if you could somehow explain it all.
All for little Jimmy to tell his teacher he's got the measles and is staying home from school. Or Margaret to order a replacement driver's license from the DMV. Or Kumar to order a pizza.
There are much better ways we could be using technology to solve people's problems than the jumble of bullshit we have today. But the jumble is propped up by trillions of dollars, hundreds of millions of jobs, and entire nations worth of infrastructure. Until one player dominates it all and controls it, nobody has a reason to upset the apple cart.
I hope Google does become the evil empire, so the rebels will see the chains on their hands and finally begin the fight.