Killing the Web

The Web is dead, proclaims this Wired article.  It's another example of digital death forecasting.  Here the authors argue that humans are using more and more venues other than Web browsers, like so:

Alas, this is about proportion, not amount, as BoingBoing points out.  The amount of Web stuff keeps growing. 

If this argument persists, it will require some more demonization of the Web, which we'll track here.

Comments

[Alison]

Haven't read the full article yet, but the graph bugs me, since many of those are overlapping categories. I, for instance, use a web browser to get to my email, and to most of the video I watch (via YouTube or Hulu or whatever). How are they breaking this down?

[Glen Engel-Cox]

Yeah, I'm with Alison's comment. When did video not become web? It's not like I use some other protocol to get to YouTube.

[Bryan Alexander]

I agree, Alison and Glen. Is YouTube Web or video? Obviously it is both.

It feels connected to the post-Web mobile device meme.

[aleene]

Demonisation by statistics and/or graphs is a well known category.