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I agree with the "Pushing Data" part and disagree with the "Not Pages". An important "dumb client" still exists: the CDN. I think a popular model in the near future will be to push server-rendered HTML to a CDN, along with JavaScript that the ultimate client uses to get whatever has changed since that HTML was rendered.

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Right - it's not that no pages are going to be rendered and transmitted. You've obviously got to get the HTML/CSS/JS into your browser somehow. There's also going to be a certain amount of heavy lifting that will keeping happening server side - big data analytics and all that.

But the trend is towards doing less rendering server side and more on the client side, with just the raw data being pushed around rather than the presentation of that data.

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