"Desktop apps promised to deliver the power of computers to the ordinary citizen; in fact, they delivered the pain of a corporate system administration job right into the ordinary citizen's home or office. Desktop apps promised to help people collaborate; in fact they have imprisoned individual contributions on individual machines. What people need and, with the ubiquitous Internet, can finally get, are collaborative Web-based applications. Web-based apps let people use computers without becoming mired in system administration. Web-based apps help people collaborate. Web-based apps can weave an individual's contribution into a larger work produced by many people over the decades. The future is collaborative Web-based applications. ..."

On the one hand he's right. On the other hand, would it be possible to design a more fragile infrastructure? If an enemy (remember, even paranoids have them!) destabilizes the web, then EVERYBODY sits on their hands? Call me a Luddite, but . . .

Signing off for a few days, night all.

-- Puddintame (achillesg@hotmail.com), July 30, 1999

Answers

The original "web" was designed to survive a nuclear attack. I wonder if it will survive Y2K? <:)=

-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), July 30, 1999.

Phil thinks Y2K is No Big Deal.

-- webfoot (web@quack.pond), August 01, 1999.

"Phil thinks Y2K is No Big Deal."

Yet ANOTHER technology pro who thinks that; but remember you should ignore people like Greenspun, they can't POSSIBLY know what they are talking about! [BG!]

-- anti-luddite (take@off.hosers), August 01, 1999.

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-- R (riversoma@aol.com), August 01, 1999.