How we lost the web by Anil Dash

Anil Dash wrote the "Web We Lost" in December 2012.  This piece generated a wide response and conversation.  There is so much interest in this topic that Anil Dash was asked to speak about it at Harvard's Beckman Center. 

A sample from the Web We Lost:  The tech industry and its press have treated the rise of billion-scale social networks and ubiquitous smartphone apps as an unadulterated win for regular people, a triumph of usability and empowerment. They seldom talk about what we've lost along the way in this transition, and I find that younger folks may not even know how the web used to be.

You can see his entire presentation including his slide show at "How We Lost the Web" .

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