I once heard something about web 3.0 (For a clear explanation of the concept: Watch the video or check http://www.labnol.org/internet/web-3-concepts-explained/8908/), but I didn’t think about it anymore until yesterday, when I read an article in Metro about the fact that our real life becomes more and more virtual.
It is hard to believe what will be possible in the near future! Our Dare2Share team is creating a web 2.0 social network site, but in the meantime the technological world is taking giant leaps forward and is developing a new concept that really outstrips the familiar web 2.0 culture. The future of internet is mobile: everyone will be on the web, everywhere and always. Web 3.0 goes way beyond checking your email wireless in a café, it is about having access to a network that is constantly online, via cell phone or other applications (IPhone, e-reader, IPad etc.). Metro gives an example: Imagine you are travelling in Sweden and you feel like having pizza. Your mobile phone will tell you how to find the Italian restaurant that is nearest by and will lead you there.
The physical world will be mixed with the virtual world, as it were. This is a marvellous evolution, but also a creepy one. When you can reach everything at all times, you can be reached as well: Big Brother is watching you…!
Source: Metro City Clickers Deluxe 2010.03.26
Posted by: Elisabeth Minnaert
