[LINK] Web 1.0 lives on in spirit and fact [WAS Re: Wordle

[David]

On 2022-02-07 00:54, Stephen Loosley wrote:
> Roger writes,
> 
>> The glass-half-full person inside me has a concern: Now the Web 2.0+
>> brigade will twig to the fact that: - despite implementing very effective
>> consumer manipulation,  and creating the digital surveillance economy,
>> they haven't yet actually dismantled the real, request-response, client-
>> side-capable Web;  and  -  they'd better get on and do so.
> 
> Good point Roger. And, here they dismantling .. and spinning it positively.
> 
> “Start-up emerges with an ‘enterprise browser'”
> 
> The Island browser is based on Chrome and can limit site access and stop employees from uploading and downloading data, copying and pasting information, and even taking screenshots.

Yes, it's an excellent point I think.

But the article on the "enterprise browser" reads like a puff piece for a hopeful startup.  It's not another Wordle.  And I have no idea what to make of this passage:

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The only question now, Firstbrook said, is whether Google or Microsoft could simply implement the same functionality on their own web browsers. That's a distinct possibility, especially if uptake is brisk.

"Microsoft has no network security technology at all," Firstbrook said. "They have no firewalls, no network detection response, no proxies. They really have a very limited set of technologies. This would be a way for them to deliver the things you’re looking for from a network technology without actually getting into the network side of things."
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Huh?  Is he serious?

I'm beginning to wonder whether society generally is fissioning into smaller groups with common interests as the world's problems become more intractable, and maybe that's a minor example.  Very few people with the intellect & educational background to comprehend these issues are in politics (maybe Angela Merkel was an exception), with the result that politics has degenerated into ideology, rhetoric, and marketing.  Religious fundamentalism should be no surprise.

Recently Cassie McCullagh (?...not sure) on ABC Radio interviewed the Australian author of a book on the rapidly growing Pentecostal religious movement, particularly among young adults.  I was surprised to learn the author regarded it as a closed mutual-help group so, for example, members of a congregation would be urged to support a new Pentecostal business owner rather than others offering similar services.

Stephen, where did your quote: "Thirteen Pentecostals in a Cabinet of 22 amply demonstrated complete unfitness to take part in decisions on the greater good of the country.” come from?  We all know the PM (Scott Morrison) attends Hillsong and believes in "miracles".  Many Conservatives are committed Christians of various persuasions, but thirteen Pentecostals?

David Lochrin