Forrester Research predicts death of the web

[daveleau]

The web is in its prime as a totally reliable resource for information. It is available 24/7 and from almost everywhere. This does not sound like a dusty library to me either. I would liken this statement to Bill Gate's talk about the web's potential...
Dave

[Mntsnow]

Apparently, he hasn't heard of communities like SysOpt. .....It's a two way highway where users share ideas through forums like SysOpt's....it's definitely a far cry from reading in a dusty library! So George, if you're listening, don't count out community - the web isn't just about taking print media and putting it online.

Amen brother

[Hawk35]

It seems like the researcher in this case is not really looking beyond the major names they are familiar with. one of the truely facinating and useful facts about the internet is the ability to view information in relatively real time, while at the same time having access to the archives of past information for comparison.
take my morning for example:
3 major newspapers (2US, 1 European) for a balanced view.
4 Tech sites
2 Web news agencies.
Later today I will be having a meeting with several clients who are between 1000-2000 miles away. All this before lunch http://www.sysopt.com/news/gws/cdata/smile.gif
There is NO way I would be able to do this with typical ink and paper mediums.

Hawk

[zenjive]

What this is really about is that marketing agencies have suddenly discovered that people really hate pop-up ads and they have started bailing out of the web-ad business.

This article should really read:

"Forrester Research has discovered that the internet is really only useful for the exchange of info and ideas and not mass-commercialism hype like TV"

[This message has been edited by zenjive (edited 05-23-2001).]

[the corrupted]

Amen zenjive. Amen

[unclebuck12]

Yes, the web is a good source of information, but I don't like the way it appears to be headed. I used to be able to look-up someone's email address or download a MP3 for free. Now we have to pay to surf the internet and it seems they want us to also pay for the information we find.

It looks like the Internet may have some competition in the future with other networks such as Gnutella, a P2P file-sharing network born out of the Napster mess. You can read about this new network at http://www.limewire.com.

I think a little competition is a good thing.

[J Falk]

Changes will happen, sometimes dramatically - but it does not mean the end!

[taylortime]

Yeah.. but look at the source the report is using as the basis for that conclusion....

Tim Berners-Lee.....He "invented" the web!!

(who wouldda known..?) He was
the one to impress us all with his invention of the addressing system now used on the web
which makes it useable. ( how would we know where to look otherwise?)

Ha ha ha ha thats funny... er.. I mean
lol lol lol (i'm a slow learner. @_@)

It's funny to say something of that magnitutde and impact on life as we know it,
and still be able to quote the guy who "did" it. You tend to think of those guys as long
gone.

Like Alexander Graham-Bell of the phone
fame... he sat around one day and thought..
" ummmm... I wanna talk to somebody...who
ain't even here!!..." Good job Al!

And I'm with all you guys... the demise
of the internet is not only NOT "emenent"..
the only thing that can happen is it will continue to grow ... I bet we ain't seen nuthin' yet...

However the demise of the PC as we (or should I asy "I")know it today, won't be soon enough for me!! All these wires & cords
....tempormental too!! Nothing is ever the same to fix...even if it's the same problem!

You're right....I'm on my way to the
"modem's R us" forum ( thank God for sysopt)
I'm new to computers and none of this sticks
with me. You know, like trying TO NAVAGATE
this thing... get back to some place you were before the latest melt down. I'm close now.... hmmmm where is that "forums" button

[S.Tungate (STunner34)]

In a sort of round about way i agree with George although i hesitate to call website creation/browsing dusty, but i do tend to believe that alot if not most forum discussions usually end up breaking down to mud slinging childish name calling and seldom if ever get any real useful info out of them.
On a brighter note, i've been recieving the SysOpt newsletter for, well along time , and thanks to the SysOpt team there is indeed some good places left on the web to search out information.

[Jim Pivonka]

NOT an entertainment broadcast or service delivery medium as the moguls are trying to make it, the Net is useful to people as a way to find information, share information and ideas, and create community beyond the local geographies of space and social constraint they usually suffer.

Of course text will be less important, as the tools for creating other forms of communication become available. But why would we want to accept being force fed "services" or entertainment, instead of creating our own communities, ferreting out our own sources of information, and sharing our own information and experiences with others? Why do the moguls keep trying to force the Net into the TV mode, referring over and over again to the "MTV" generation?