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Anyone Who Slaps A 'this Page Is Best Viewed With Browser X' Label On A Web Page Appears To Be Yearning For The Bad Old Days, Before The Web, When You Had Very Little Chance Of Reading A Document Written On Another Computer, Another Word Processor, Or Another Network.

It's Possible To Live Without The Web. It's Not Possible To Live Without Water. But If You've Got Water, Then The Difference Between Somebody Who Is Connected To The Web And Is Part Of The Information Society, And Someone Who (is Not) Is Growing Bigger And Bigger.

What I Do Has To Be A Function Of What I Can Do, Not A Function Of What People Ask Me To Do.

I Should Be Able To Pick Which Applications I Use For Managing My Life, I Should Be Able To Pick Which Content I Look At, And I Should Be Able To Pick Which Device I Use, Which Company I Use For Supplying My Internet, And I'd Like Those To Be Independent Choices.

Physicists Analyse Systems. Web Scientists, However, Can Create The Systems.