Stuck tech

Tuesday, March 20, 2007 by Dave Winer.

Peter Rip, a man I've never met, but would like to, wrote an amazingly insightful article about where we're at in web applications these days. 

"The Web today still resembles MS-DOS more than MS-Windows. Every website is an island, an island that knows nothing about any other website. This is no different than the world before the Windows Clipboard. All 640KB of memory was available to whatever application was running. The point of integration was the User. As it is today." 

I have lots of ideas I'd like to share about where we can go with the formats we already have, but I can't get past the gatekeepers at the conferences Mr Rip mentions in his piece.