Is the Web Truly Dead?

Authors Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff debate this topic in a heated paralleled article. According to Anderson the Web is dead. He states in his piece, “Producers and consumers agree: The Web is not the culmination of the digital revolution.” In 1997 Wired, the publication that published this particular article published an article called Push! cover story. Anderson cited it by explaining “‘Sure, we’ll always have Web pages. We still have postcards and telegrams, don’t we? But the center of interactive media – increasingly the center of gravity of all media – is moving to a post-HTML environment,’ we promised nearly a decade and a half ago.” Anderson also claims that the web is just Web is just an application on the Internet. Speaking of applications, Morgan Stanley predicts that within five years more people will be accessing the Net via mobile devices than PCs. Mobile devices use the Net but not the Web. The Web is also feeling pressure from profits.