Firefox is faster, but you’re bored! You have a lot of valid reasons not to care, as changing a web browser is not some fly-by-night for-fun choice. Your web browser is precisely a serious tool, and you’re going to want more than Firefox being precisely like the one you already have if you’re going to switch. The switching cost is too damn high.
Speaking of the web browser you now have, most likely, you are utilizing Google Chrome. Everyone knows you’re using Google Chrome, particularly Mozilla, the creators of Firefox, who have published their own report with humbling statistics about how everyone uses Chrome. If you need to see what’s inevitable, look at that website. It’s full of terrifying data details of inevitability turned into cool JavaScript charts, showing us how Google knows a terrifying number about us, Internet censorship is on the rise, and that only half the society uses the internet. That last one is interesting, considering all this inevitability.
I can’t help but wonder if this characteristic of inevitability resonates with what the artists called “post-internet.” That is, maybe this is a hint that we have reached a point of growth on the internet where its presence is no longer novel. Its effect on society is universal and lasting. Postinternet isn’t a very focused concept itself, but the time limitations inherent in its name is appealing, and you can kind of see it occurring. The word INTERNET itself, once ringing with opportunity, sure just feels like the annoying screech of inevitability. The people who don’t hear this cry have an idea for a website.
For most of us, the web browser has gone from technology to tool, even though those two statements have always meant the exact same thing. It would make a function with life under post-internet that our choice of web browser wouldn’t really exist or more likely under our modern economic and social systems be like choosing between brands of laundry detergent.
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