A clean start for the web (2020)
Do we really want to continue having &quot;a web&quot; ? Remember, &quot;the web&quot; was never designed for what we do with it today. If you&#x27;re thinking of overhauling &quot;the web&quot;, I think it makes sense to start from first principles, and build something that meets today&#x27;s needs with the least amount of unnecessary bullshit.<p>You have to start from the user&#x27;s experience, because nothing else matters about a computer other than what you use it for. What do people actually want to <i>do</i> with a computer? It&#x27;s going to be very hard to throw away all your assumptions. Don&#x27;t assume that they want or need what we have today. They may not need the internet, or even a visual interface.<p>After you understand the problems the user wants solved, <i>then</i> you can go about building products that address those needs. You may think technology is clay that we can shape to fit a user&#x27;s needs; but what if what they were best served by was metal, or glass, or paper? We must look through all technological mediums and components to provide the best solution.<p>Many of the developers today literally have never lived their lives in a world without certain inherent technological expectations and limitations. We need to open their minds and show them that they really can make <i>literally anything</i> with technology, and that it doesn&#x27;t have to resemble anything that we have today. If you think &quot;oh but we can&#x27;t make change too radical, it wouldn&#x27;t work&quot;, that&#x27;s what they said before we ended up with the technology of today! The only box you&#x27;re limited to is the one you put yourself in.