This wouldn't work for any web page that has dynamic content stored in a database. If the database no longer exists a decade from now this doesn't solve that problem.
Also, wouldn't this break analytics and reporting for most websites too? It'll be much tougher to track user behavior to improve user experience. And debugging using log data? I get what the author is suggesting but "fixing the web" this way would break more things that large websites and companies rely on.
> It'll be much tougher to track user behavior to improve user experience.
That sounds tragically Orwellian. "We do [BAD THING] to help you! [and it also, just by chance, makes us more money too by exploiting you, but never you mind that]"
> break more things that large websites and companies rely on.
The historical "spy everywhere" privacy model of the web isn't a natural state anybody has a right to exploit. Breaking the current centralized curation model would be a benefit for everyone.
Well, as the Internet once said to the music companies, it's not our fault if our new technology breaks your business model. People would find new ways to solve these problems.
It's fine to be that stubborn if you can win. But against the world of business that needs analytics... I suspect their business model trumps your technology for now.
This one really jumped out at me too. I haven't read this anywhere before:
"research from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute showed that each of these tech jobs had an astounding effect of creating an additional 4.3 jobs in the local economy."
Yeah I thought that was striking as well. I'm generally skeptical of stats like this but I'd love to see the paper and see the structure of those gigs (eg which industries, where geographically are they concentrated etc)
Well, the article says they've only drawn up blueprints of how the technology could work so far. I hope they start actually developing this soon though.
Also, wouldn't this break analytics and reporting for most websites too? It'll be much tougher to track user behavior to improve user experience. And debugging using log data? I get what the author is suggesting but "fixing the web" this way would break more things that large websites and companies rely on.