Observations 

We know web technology is a dead end. How can we know this. Young Viable technologies have the ability to enhance themselves every 1 to 3 years. For instance, hard drives get larger and faster, computer memory gets larger and faster, etc. This is not the case for web technology. In 20 years the web has not seen much advancement. Html is not the silver bullet most thought it was when investors were pumping millions if not billions of dollars into ridiculous websites. Everyone is trying to solve problems in the context of the web. This is insane.

We are totally going down the wrong path. The best we have to offer on the internet today is an online book store (amazon.com) and an online flea market (eBay), oh and lets not forget the latest so called big thing, an online directory (Google). Obviously we are on the wrong track when a book store, a flea market and a online directory are economic titans of the internet, the most powerful medium of all time.

Is the World Wide Web flawed, overexploited, a major disconnect or just a dead end?

Answer:  Let’s look at some internet history.

Some internet History.

In 1989 Tim burners-lee invented the World Wide Web. In his own words he stated that it was just another application. You see, Tim didn’t know the power of what he was building, but he did know of its capabilities. He just thought of it as another application. That’s why others went on to make Millions and Billions and he didn’t. He had the imprint in his mind of what his idea really was, a web of linked documents and data. He never envisioned it as an apparatus for business and the many other things that we are trying to use it for today. He created the World Wide Web for one purpose and one purpose only. It was created so that researches could share their documents and data more easily around the world by using a mark up language (Html) that anyone could easily use to format their documents and data.

Simply put, the World Wide Web is a platform for linking documents and data (information sharing) or a world wide library. It is not a platform for building a “Cyber World”, which by the way does not exist yet. This is our revised definition of the Cyber World.  The Cyber World is an online world where you should have the mechanisms in place to transact any business or activity as easily and freely as you can transact them in our physical world A.K.A the real world. Obviously, Tim never intended this for the World Wide Web. The web lacks all the major plumbing and the paradigm to support a Cyber World. For years entrepreneurs and software companies have been trying to innovate on the web, with more than 20 years of failure. The dot com bust was the apex of failure with no end in sight. They don’t get it. You can’t make or transform the web into a Cyber World. The Cyber world has to be designed from the ground up. It can not be stumbled upon and then erected in a hap hazard and knee jerk fashion. This major disconnect has created a huge opportunity.

To answer the question:

The web is not flawed because it is functioning just as it was designed to do, linking documents and data, or a big library if you may. You can’t build a Cyber World on top of a library no matter what you try to glue onto it. 

It is overexploited because we are trying to use it to do every thing that we would like to do in cyberspace (with lacking results).

There is a major disconnect between what the web is and where we want to take it (The Cyber World - The futuristic online world of computing). This disconnect is the biggest opportunity of our time or any other time for that matter.

The World Wide Web is a dead end. We can go no further with the web. That is why we have the dot com bust going on 11 years and counting. Think about it, when has the fast pace of technology ever stood still for virtually 20 years unless it was a dead end. Everything else about the internet has progressed rapidly, internet hardware, development tools, content delivery, bandwidth, etc. The web can not support a “Cyber World”. There is just nothing to work with. The paradigm is all wrong which contributes to an environment that is non conducive to infrastructure development. Don't be confused. Web 2.0 and social network is just more nonsense. Out of desperation, internet users grasp at any internet phenomena and try to parade it as progress.

Some common sense without the computer science:

All complex organisms, structures and even modern civilization can only exist in its complexity because of some form of infrastructure or building blocks. The internet is no different. In order to arrive at a more advanced internet (The Cyber World), it too must have some type of infrastructure to support it in its complexity.

Welcome to the first phase……