This is getting to be very off-topic for CF_Jobs, but here goes, anyway: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ...I'm just not so sure what is going to happen to the internet... > Yes, it feels like an era is quickly coming to an end. > > ...I saw it for the first time in two years. Wow is it bad! AOL have contributed to >the destruction of the Internet as much as any! > It can't go away all together, so many people rely on it for many things. But, I >don't think it will be the same. It will transform into something else. I'm not sure >what, yet. All > these internet appliances, our homes will be plugged in pretty soon. It seems to me >that what will disapear is the era of the 'personal home page'. Big corporations will >take over > everything once again. Then, I'll probably log off for good...just like television. But don't kid yourself that AOL (or the commercialization/idiot-proofing of the web that it represents) is going to be anything other than the standard that we all have to deal with from here on out. The net is here to stay, of course. It will morph into something else, as we're seeing already with networks of picture frames (Storybox), etc. It will always change, and when those changes trickle down to the masses, they'll be presented in a way that makes them usable right away, by the majority, without much of a learning curve. I've never used AOL and maybe never will, but heck, they're the big gorilla that I should have invested in years ago, cuz they appeal to the masses. I think the net will always retain it's independent nature though, to some extent. I don't think you'll see the end of the personal homepage. Big corps have already taken over everything that can make money, including ISPs that host personal homepages (hmm, so, how personal are they, anyway)? As developers we need to keep our skills current, so that we can ride the wave instead of getting swallowed by it. That's true whether we're talking about having to develop something for access by AOL users, pda users, phone users, whatever. We may not always *like* the method of access, but as developers, that decision isn't up to us. We'll be doing ourselves a favor (job-wise) if we do what we can to keep our skills current. Steve Ray Matrix ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_jobs or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
