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A fun question to ask oneself is what effect
the incorporation very large sensor arrays will
have on the evolution of the World Wide Web?
It is convenient to pretend that entities such
as the TAG can direct that evolution through a
set of first principles and practices, but it
may not be more than a convenient fiction that
dissolves as the density of real time sensor
connections increases.
Or not. That's the real test of those principles:
how well they stand up to evolutionary pressures
given uses of the technology not anticipated by
the designers of the WWW but anticipated
by the designers of the Internet. It's a good
practice to remember the WWW is yet another
hosted system and could mutate in the face of
increased variations of use of the host.
I would expect observable effects on subsystems first.
XML could be an early victim because in its
design DNA is the assumption that verbosity
doesn't matter, or that a good-enough syntax
really is.
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