[syndicate] Is the Internet Dying?

[eduardo at navasse.net]

I think what is proposed in the text below can only happen if one expects
a preconceived ideal of the internet to come about.  This is no different
than someone looking at a work of art and saying "that is not art" because
it does not meet my preconceived standards of what art should be."  Or to
put it in more simple terms: parents complaining that their child did not
turn out to be what they wanted her to be, as opposed to letting the child
grow on her own.

I read through the text, and kept wondering if it was some sort of ironic
joke.  But I never found the punch line.  I am still waiting for the punch-line...
it seems a bit too simple on purpose.  You should send it to Tim Bernes-Lee.

Eduardo Navas
http://navasse.net
http://netartreview.net


>-- Original Message --
>Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 00:38:28 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
>To: syndicate at anart.no
>Subject: [syndicate] Is the Internet Dying? 
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>Is the Internet Dying?
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>Recently there has been a great deal of discussion of "Is the Internet
>Dying" which is a very controversial issue. Some say the Internet is dying
>and will not survive. Others say the Internet will continue forever and
it
>is fine. I think the Internet is going through difficult times and may
not
>survive. I will tell you my reasons why.
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>First, the Internet is very busy now with many business and this hurts
>its chance of success of surviving. For example, if you want to order a
>car, you can order the car on the Internet and even pick the color you
>want. But this makes many people use the Internet who should go out and
>enjoy the weather to see the car, and this may be a real problem.
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>Second, there are so many spams on the Internet, sometimes it is hard to
>find a way to read them all, and they are almost always not very good.
I
>think the spams are harmful, but there are some interesting offers from
>foreign countries that sound exciting. But I think they may be "scams"
and
>not real, but I do not know. They sound exciting.
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>But they take up so much room that sometimes I have problems finding
>emails from my friends who also write and even my family. And sometimes
my
>family will write and want to know should I take up this offer they have
>received, what do I think. So it takes a lot of time and I feel I am
>drowning with so much to do in just answering these letters.
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>Third, I cannot watch movie on the Internet. I try, but my machine is so
>slow, the movie runs slow and I forget what I am looking at. I do not
>understand the language also when it runs slow. I think in the future they
>must speed the movies up. Then I will understand better but my machine
may
>still be too slow. I do not know! but I will find out.
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>Fourth, there are so many language on the Internet and I cannot follow
all
>of them. Sometimes I will try and translate one, but I cannot do this all
>the time and there is this important information maybe that I cannot read
>and do not know what I can do with it. I will ask my friends but maybe
>they cannot read either.
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>Therefore, I think the Internet is a very good thing, because there is
a
>lot of information on it, and I can talk to my friends and my family, but
>I think it is maybe dying also because of the language, the slow movie,
>the spam and the business. Only time will tell!
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