Internet Innovation Under Threat

This summary from Science describes how the current internet trends are suppressing innovation. Since local applications and processing power becomes less important, people rely more on services in the cloud and are less likely to be creative and innovative at a local level. Although this is good for standardisation and robustness, the two-tier proposals for prioritising network traffic particularly move away from the original principals of information for allon which the web was based. Although I see an increasing trend in mobile applications, though many of them are simply presenting information served somewhere in the net rather than processing anything locally.