Completely Rethinking the Web

"It’s Spring 2005. April showers, May flowers. The hope of a new year bursting forth all around us. It’s a time for optimism and new beginnings and hope. But, despite more than 10 years of development, of spring after spring bearing promise, we are left to accept one incontrovertible fact:

The Web is broken.

We’re very close to the tipping point. The boundary now is hardware. Once devices like flash memory (portable plug-and-play memory that fits in a wallet) have the capacity to hold software applications, the notion of Web applications will reach the point of imminent obsolescence. Sites are clumsy and not optimized for each customer. Interface devices are woefully inadequate. Despite the power of the Web and the potential of ever-evolving technology, our execution is collectively dreadful. For all of the good things we’ve done and the gains we’ve made, the Web in general remains a very poor experience." Via Digital Web Magazine