What an interesting concept! From Thinking Beyond Web 2.0: Social Computing and the Internet Singularity.
Quoting a quote from Dion’s blog:
“The idea that a deeper and tighter coupling between the online and offline worlds will accelerate science, business, society, and self-actualization.” – Dr. Gary Flake
Dion talks about convergence and cross pollination of ideas from Web 2.0 to enterprises.
Here are some thoughts/wishes.
- Mashups become as simple as writing Excel Macros
- AJAX is not an after thought but gets absorbed into the way we build UI
- Highlevel declarative Mashup Markup Languages spring up
- Webservices (both lite and heavy) take root and may become the norm
- Loosely coupled applications with thousands and even millions of components appear as different services
- A robust platform springs up with webservices proxies and other infrastructural services
- Data Services ( a new kind of service where database capabilities are available as webservices) absorb the complexity of storing, retrieving and scaling data access
- Semantics take hold. Whether it is through Microformats or RDF or some fusion of these, does not really matter
- Social Computingness (wiki-ness, blog-ness, ajax-ness, mashup-ness, openapis-ness, software-as-service-ness) become the core philosophies of development
I like the spirt of this whole thing. Just wish that is where we are going. It will not kill jobs or companies. There is so much to do.
2 thoughts on “Internet Singularity”
I believe it is where we’re going. In time AJAX will be seem as just another piece to something larger. For instance, most consumer-facing RIAs interact with public facing servers. Most business applications don’t. Instead, they interact with servers behind the firewall. That’s where REA come in. REA has three pillars:
• Ajax// for rich and highly interactive application capabilities
• SOA// for standards-based, loosely-coupled business services
• The Web// for Ajax application to SOA business service connectivity
There is a lot to do but think the enablers are here.
Mike,
Thanks for that insight. I agree about the enablers. I think all the enablers will evolve into something simpler, easier than what they are right now.
— Dorai
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