Re: Article in Wired

[Joseph Esposito <espositoj@gmail.com>]

This is a thoughtful item.  For more in this vein, see the 
balanced piece in The Atlantic:

http://j.mp/acXA4j

Joe Esposito

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Ken Masters 
<kmasters@ithealthed.com> wrote:

> Hi All
>
> Interesting. I'm sure that the web, like all technology will 
> eventually get phased out, but there are a couple of issues 
> with the article that need clarifying.
>
> Mainly, the graph showing the decline of the web and increased 
> video traffic.
>
> 1.If that is measured in Mb/Gb, then, naturally, because video 
> is generally larger than normal HTML or XML, it will reflect a 
> massive increase over other types of traffic. The graph is 
> given in relative percentages, and does not show if "web" pages 
> have increased, or raw numbers of accesses.
>
> 2.I'll warrant that many people still access those videos 
> (especially from sites like Youtube) through a web browser.
>
> 3.Given these, it's quite difficult to find out what they mean 
> by "Web" - unless they mean only raw html pages, no videos, 
> audio, even graphics etc. If that's what is meant, it's an 
> extremely narrow definition (and, at the risk of being 
> offensive, is a pretty stupid comment).
>
> Finally, if the web is dead, then why was the article produced 
> on a (rather poorly designed) web page?
>
> Regards, Ken
>
> Dr. Ken Masters
> Asst. Professor: Medical Informatics
> Medical Education Unit
> College of Medicine & Health Sciences
> Sultan Qaboos University
> Sultanate of Oman
> E-i-C: The Internet Journal of Medical Education