The web is still the frontier, we're just interacting with it in new ways. Those VR meeting apps still need to connect to other computers, and if you get serio

The web is still the frontier, we're just interacting with it in new ways. Those VR meeting apps still need to connect to other computers, and if you get serious about machine learning the cloud is invaluable. Phone apps are also usually less local-friendly than desktop apps. Just because kids aren't using email or websites as much doesn't mean that they aren't using the internet more. Although personally, I wouldn't cry if the internet matured into a sort of academic database. Mass-scale social connectivity should probably move to local intranets, like airdrop and local-area IM platforms.