The Learning Hypernet
Mark Suster pointed me to Roger McNamee and Mike Maples new Hypernet blog. Let’s start with their definitions:
Hypernet: the physical infrastructure that results from combining the internet with cellular and wifi. At present half the nodes are computers and half are smart phones, but the balance is moving away from computers.
Hyperweb: the software and services layer that leverages the Hypernet. HTML 5 appears to be a fundamental building block of the Hyperweb.
The combination of web + cellular + wifi is fundamentally new infrastructure enabling mobile computing, new enterprise models, and new ways to learn. Roger and Mike are interesting thinkers and successful investors. The have 10 hypotheses for Technology Investing:
- “Next” Web Architecture = Hypernet + Hyperweb
- Enterprises Adopting Consumer Technology
- Index Search is Peaking
- Apple’s App Model Has Undermined Economics of HTML4 Web
- HTML5 is Game Changer for Publishers
- Tablets Are Hugely Disruptive
- First Wave of “Social Web” Is Over
- Smartphones in US: Apple + 7 Dwarfs
- Wireless Infrastructure Is a Competitive Threat to US
- Integration of TV & Internet Could Be Disruptive

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