Hypernet

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Roger McNames:

"Today, app-centric smartphones and tablets represent half of all connected devices. Half. On app-based devices, the Web is just one application among many, rather than the center of online activity. It is a huge change.

Since the online world now consists of two pieces of equal size, I believe the traditional vocabulary is obsolete. I have proposed that we refer to the new network layer -- the sum of the wired Internet and the mobile data infrastructure for cellular and Wi-Fi -- as the Hypernet. Its software counterpart is the Hyperweb, which today includes the traditional Web and app model, but which may evolve to include other technologies in the future.

Why do we need new vocabulary? Everything about the app market works differently from the Web. The failure to recognize this is one reason why Web leaders like Google have been unable to build profitable businesses around apps. When companies incorrectly define their market -- as the railroads did in the face of competition from trucks and jets -- they leave themselves vulnerable. Hence, the need for new vocabulary." (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/roger-mcnamee/hypernet-html-5_b_1327681.html)


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