In 97 wired had an article on how push will make a browser obsolete. On why everybody should want to watch, listen, breathe, eat what other pushed at you. It was on of the last isues (if not the last) I bought.
Push never made it. Push is "one point ooooh". Push is radio. Push is TV. Push is not the internet. The Wired article was wrong:
As everything gets wired, media of all kinds are moving to the decentralized matrix known as the Net. While the traditional forms - broadcast, print - show few signs of vanishing, the Net is being invaded by new media species. The Web is one. Yet with each additional node, each new T1 line, the media the Internet can support become richer, more complex, more nuanced. The Net has begun offering things you simply can't browse.
Very wrong. The old media are dieing. The web is not one, but a diversity of nodes, people and information. And even if you do not browse the net anymore (plexapp is a very cool way to see that non browsable traffic is still browsable and without being pushed) the net never became a push medium.
People want to be in control. And control is more then flipping a page, using a "remote control" or changing a radio channel. People want hulu, plex, a real browser, be interactive on facebook, twitter or any other social medium. And this can not be pushed away.
So my law is:
Push companies will never get it.
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