Wired has a fascinating cover story this month entitled “The Web is Dead…Long Live the Internet” making the argument that the web browser is dying off in place of apps (on our phones and on our computers) that use the Internet simply as the transport mechanism.

The chart that Wired used to illustrate this trend showed the web as a percentage of total Internet traffic, and broke out video and peer-to-peer apps, among others. Here’s the chart:

But if you think for a minute about the utter explosion in the Internet’s usage by everyone from your grandmother to my three-year-old son, you might come to the quick realization I did: illustrating the web as a percentage of total internet traffic could be quite misleading.

Boing Boing thought the same and recasted the chart showing the total volume of traffic, and let’s just say that the growth of the web looks very healthy indeed.

My opinion: we are nowhere close to the end of growth charts that look like that when it comes to technology. The Internet Age has just begun and there’s a whole lot more growth to do over the next twenty years.

What do you think? Are you using the browser less while still using internet-connected apps, or do you float back and forth and the medium doesn’t matter to you?