Re:So you've made a mistake and it's public
by Swizec on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:49PM
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> Just because kids aren't using email or websites as much doesn't mean that they aren't using the internet more.
For sure, everything uses the internet. But not the web.
Point is most of us aren’t hanging out where the kids are hanging out. And we don’t have as much time to just hang out either.
Those VR meeting apps still need to connect to other computers, and if you get serious about machine learning the cloud is invaluable. Phone apps are also usually less local-friendly than desktop apps.
Just because kids aren't using email or websites as much doesn't mean that they aren't using the internet more.
Although personally, I wouldn't cry if the internet matured into a sort of academic database. Mass-scale social connectivity should probably move to local intranets, like airdrop and local-area IM platforms.