Happy New Year. As I’ve done every year since 2000 I hereby declare that I am hopeful that the future is officially started. I would also like to announce a new test for whether it is actually true. I’ve humbly named this test the Minnick Test of the Future. The test is quite simple: when [...]
A good place to start looking for clues into what the future of the Web will look like is in the historical record and memories of the time before Web 2.0.
I call anything pre-97 the “Long Public Beta” phase of the Web. This stretches back to Tim Berners-Lee’s first demo version in 1990. Berners-Lee’s original [...]
I’m pleased to announce that I now have motivation to write something coherent on a regular basis. As of last week, I’m writing an approximately weekly column titled “Web 8.0″ for Waterside Syndication. Here’s the marketing blurb about it:
Chris Minnick discusses the future of the Internet with his unique brand of humor and insight. See [...]