Closing the Digital Frontier
The era of the Web browser’s dominance is coming to a close. And the Internet’s founding ideology - that information wants to be free, and that attempts to constrain it are not only hopeless but immoral - suddenly seems naive and stale in the new age of apps, smart phones, and pricing plans. What will this mean for the future of the media - and of the Web itself? Michael Hirschorn reflects on this in latest issue of The Atlantic Magazine:
“The shift of the digital frontier from the Web, where the browser ruled supreme, to the smart phone, where the app and the pricing plan now hold sway, signals a radical shift from openness to a degree of closed-ness that would have been remarkable even before 1995.”
