Web 3.0

[tommylogic]

Well it is inevitable...

From Wikipedia:

Web 3.0 is a term that is used to describe various aspects of the evolution of Web usage and interaction along several paths. These include transforming the Web into a database, a move towards making content accessible by multiple non-browser applications, the utilization of artificial intelligence technologies, the Semantic web, the Geospatial Web,^{[citation needed]} or the 3D web.

From PC Magazine:

To many, Web 3.0 is something called the Semantic Web, a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee, the man who invented the (first) World Wide Web. In essence, the Semantic Web is a place where machines can read Web pages much as we humans read them, a place where search engines and software agents can better troll the Net and find what we're looking for. "It's a set of standards that turns the Web into one big database," says Nova Spivack, CEO of Radar Networks, one of the leading voices of this new-age Internet.

Google Web 3.0

[mjhoagland]

Yep, Cyberdine is innevitable. Web 2.0 was people coming together with information and now Web 3.0 is machines coming together with information. Now machines will be able to track people. Just the next evolution of things.

Web 4.0?? That's what I'm hypothesizing. Let's say virtual web-pages? We've already got the info, the people and the machines. So then just mash it all together. Mmmmm tasty. The Borg are coming ;)

[Zaoris]

Actually, the fact that quite a few people know what exactly "web 2.0" is, is intriguing me.
What's even more intriguing is that we're aleady talking about "web 3.0".

[mjhoagland]

Should it be so intriguing though? The 2.0 craze has already been going on for over a year and a half now? In the web anything that lasts over one year is pretty much ancient. So, I'm actually a little surprised we haven't been talking about Web x. Which is what I think it will be referred to. "Web X", not Web 10, just X, will become the popular term and it will mean the ever changing evolution of the relationships between technology and people. Nobody wants to spatter out Web 2,185,204.0 after several decades. :P

Purely my own speculation, obviously.

[Zaoris]

Originally Posted by mjhoagland

Should it be so intriguing though? The 2.0 craze has already been going on for over a year and a half now? In the web anything that lasts over one year is pretty much ancient. So, I'm actually a little surprised we haven't been talking about Web x. Which is what I think it will be referred to. "Web X", not Web 10, just X, will become the popular term and it will mean the ever changing evolution of the relationships between technology and people. Nobody wants to spatter out Web 2,185,204.0 after several decades. :P

Purely my own speculation, obviously.

Intrigued that even if it's ancient as you said...there are still people who don't undertand it.
And yes, I agree with the Web X name and the whole idea of a popular term.