Continuously (re) hacking the web in perpetuity or?
this might be the wrong place to ask this, but i've been noting a few trends over the last 20 years or so...
why are web-developers so damned clever? do we really need to do all of this to ourselves?
the web is just a port, a protocol, and a model for interaction, underneath it all. the original vision was clear: site index pages cataloged/linked-to resources available in that directory. it wasn't imagined nor planned-for that we would wish to do async nor continuous stream-like interaction with servers.
why on earth can we not live with the existing web, and move on towards inventing other spaces?
a browser is just a shitty sandboxed OS with a declarative markup renderer. there's nothing to stop anyone from making a different client-side x-terminal... (as that's what people are trying to turn the web into, apparently)
the obvious breaking point is VR... we will eventually have to re-invent VRML and continue onwards... why not build a protocol and client suitable for this next-gen activity?
Same question can be asked about any iterative technology. "Why are those computer scientists so goddamn clever? Math is just numbers, why can we not just live with that, why do we need to build on top of it? What has the invention of writing ever done for us?"