Kelly & The Future

Kevin Kelly is a prime example of how people truly believe in all of the Web and its' capabilities. He spoke about how the Internet has evolved over the past 5,000 days, with no interuption. It is extremely remarkable to think that the whole idea of the web & Internet is only 5,000 days old. It seems so young. Nevertheless, within 5,000 days so much has gotten accomplished. Currently, there are 2 million emails being sent per second and 100 billion click per day. That is an insane amount. Kelly beleives that eventually everything will be shifted towards a cloud computing era. One where information will no longer be stored on towers, etc. Honestly, I think Kelly's whole idea on the web is pretty intense. I agree with some stuff but not all. I don't want a completely transparent Internet where when I sign up for a site all my friends are there to come along. If this was true, than middle-school kids would be having a blaster because they drop and gain friends by the day. Will computers be able to pick that up? I don't know, its crazy to think about. I believe that the web is an incredible resource but some take it a little to far.

Web 3.0

No doubt is technology changing at a rapid pace. Coinciding with that rapid pace is the change in society. Society today is not the same as it was 2, 5, 10 even 20 years ago. There are many different factors that have contributed to this change, everything from the economy to music to government. Therefore, it is clear to see how the Web would follow the same pattern. We are no longer living in the world of Web 1.0. We are now living in a Web 2.0 world but who knows how long that will last for? Will Web 3.0 be taking over soon than we think?
Web 1.0 surrounded itself around the dot com spark. Web 1.0 was about reading what the experts put on the Internet. It was about companies that paid professionals to make a concise website that dictated what the users had the ability to do. Some adjectives to describe Web 1.0 are: static, slow, expert material, heavy text. Sites rarely were updated and when they were it usually was not publicly announced.
Today, Web 2.0 is what we see every day. Web 2.0 is not an actual form yet it is a concept. Web 2.0 is about what society wants from the Web. Life is non-stop and always going. Hence, Web 2.0 is about user-generated content, social media sites, collaborative work, participatory agents and much more. The web is essentially accessible everywhere and anywhere. Business meetings don't mean one has to hop on a plan to cross the states rather tools such as Skype or Google Docs make it possible for them to happen instantly, regardless of geographic barriers.

So when asked what I think Web 3.0 will be about, it is a rather difficult question. I believe that Web 3.0 is going to be even more interactive. When we shop online we can see the item of clothing and we are sometimes even able to rotate it 2-dimensionally. With Web 3.0 concepts, I think we will be able to essentially have an avatar of ourselves and be able to try on the clothes without physically putting them on our body. I think that analytics will be boosted an extreme rates, like Pandora and Amazon have done with their recommendations. It almost seems sci-fi to think about it but these possibilities are real. I think Web 3.0 will be highly personalized to the user. As spoken about in this article, http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2726190.ece, it could be possible for search engines to become more deep. For instance, today we can search colleges in New York and a list would come up. With Web 3.0, I think we would be able to writing Colleges in New York specializing in Human Resource Management, a more complex thought.

Web 3.0 is an interesting component to think about and sooner or later we will be thinking about Web 4.0. Will it ever end or will it be one continuous cycle.

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