The Ego and the Id - The Second Empire

As the internet melts into its next permutation of "instant blogging", I am predicting that, unless places like Myspace update their mission statements and adapt to this new concept of dynamic internet, they will inevitably falter.

Let's put a contemporary perspective on this. America (I am limiting myself to the scope of America to be safe, but I'm sure this is happening elsewhere) has become more and more sensitized to the idea of Moore's Law, the idea that the number of transistors (and therein technological power) doubles every two years. This is an exponential increase in our tech world, but more importantly, this is a concept that, in my opinion, works in the mind of culture as well.

Lately, Twitter has been all the rage, and with the reason that Facebook was so popular when it first came out: Twitter took the best of the old, refined it, and broke away from the excesses of Myspace et al. From the projected direction these type of websites are taking, we are approaching what I called earlier as the "dynamic internet".

A perfect analogy comes to mind of the website being a synapse, which will have synapses around which will fire, and you will inevitably gain a tiny, vague glimpse at the entire internet at each page view. When we connect the internet to our minds, which will inevitably happen somewhere in the future, we could develop a complete and absolute proxy-hive mentality. The internet has laid down the architecture for it, and as we approach the crux of the second empire of the internet, and "Web 3.0" looms on the horizon, the possibilities and implications are both frightening and astounding.