0090

3/25/2000

Prediction: the internet will eventually be divided, such that you will subscribe to certain web portals (channels) based on your preferences. You will still have access to the web at large (i.e., "the world") but most of the time, you will want to stay in your own "state" and "country" preferences.

***

New word: "Internette" (a smaller, partitioned internet.) (2/2001)

***

And what do TikTok’s travails tell us about the future of a global technology ecosystem dominated by giant American and Chinese companies, as it suddenly splinters into two? 

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/tiktok-china-trump

12/2021:

It’s only been a couple months since Facebook’s rebrand, but it’s hard to overstate how much it’s already driven the conversation about “the metaverse.” For starters, nearly everyone describes it as the metaverse—when the reality is that there is no singular metaverse in the sense that we talk about “the internet.” Services like Meta’s Horizon Worlds and Microsoft’s Mesh don’t interact with each other, they’re just separate VR apps. 

https://www.wired.com/story/metaverse-land-rush-illusion/