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Web 3.0 Etc.

October 25, 2008 on 10:59 am | In Build, IdBlog | Add a Comment

Last December our favorite futurist, Kevin Kelly, delivered a talk at the EG Conference entitled “Predicting the Next 5000 Days of the Web”. In it he probes the dimensions of today’s web with its billions of transistors, linkages and massive stores of memory. Kelly posits a compelling vision of One Machine as a global repository of knowledge with all the screens in the world plugged into it. He also talks about how the web is restructuring from its present state of pages linking to pages to a web where data links to data, or ideas to ideas — the so-called Semantic Web, or Web 3.0.

And where’s it all going? According to Kelly, to an internet of things, where mobile devices share information with the network and knowing just requires participation. We hope that’s a good thing.