As intelligent as the human, as responsive and as understanding. Web 3.0 is likely to be something most of us have not even imagined. And yet, it is going to be something we are all going to create!
Thanks to Web 2.0, we are all leading successful virtual lives – building communities, sharing knowledge and even searching information on the future and from the annals long lost. Web 2.0 has been more of a revolution than the dotcom boom, and has proven its success like nothing else has. It has gotten almost everyone hooked to the internet with localized communities as well as very popular communities like orkut and Facebook.
This version of the web, created by xxxx, is being followed by different versions, the immediate being Web 3.0. Yes, it is simply a version, but it is likely to change the way we use the internet in the same way that Web 2.0 did. Web 3.0 is being discussed, debated and fabricated to further replace this interactive version of the world wide web. Semantic technology, autonomics and autopoeisis are some very confusing terms being used to describe what Web 3.0 could possibly be like.
We’ll go on a tangent and try to describe what Web 3.0 is in layman’s terms and what it means to the end-user, who is eventually going to make up the intelligence of this greater phenomenon.
Where Web 2.0 gave us the interactivity to share information in real time, to create communities and to make transfer of data oh so simple, Web 3.0 is going to be a drastically more intelligent version. It will be a smarter assistant that will understand our needs, requirements and if everything goes well, even our psychology. It will make the internet available everywhere – on mobiles, TV, even bathroom mirrors if you please. Artificial intelligence will take on a whole new meaning as the web understands internet pages as well as we do. It will be clever enough to relate media to media instead of depending on words, commands and strings.
You will need no keywords. Search engines of the future will be able to fathom what you need, maybe as soon as you log on or maybe as soon as it understands your needs. This is why it is being referred to as the Semantic Web, a term coined by inventor of the first world wide web Tim Berners-Lee. So the web will be smart enough to understand what you are looking for and to understand your needs at various points in time. It will be able to guide you on what meetings you need to prioritize, what movies you need to see and what goodies you need to purchase. You will even be able to visit the supermarket next door or the brand store in another part of the world, courtesy of Web 3.0.
It will almost be a virtual world, where you can socialize, entertain and even travel with the web, while sitting in the suitable realms of your room. It will take our lives beyond day-to-day to create a 3-D experience that is able to provide us with an alternate reality where we can collaborate and connect with a whole new set of people. What’s more, you will be able to develop and change the web according to your needs and imagination. People will be able to change the way this world works. And we will not have to depend on the expertise of a programmer to do this.
Web 3.0 will also be a more advanced form of the current searches. So search engines of the future will be able to look for music on the basis of the music that you provide. It will be able to search pictures according to ones that you provide. You needn’t try different keywords, all meaning the same thing, and toss around words to find what you need. It will be able to understand what you mean, without your having to rack your brains over words, strings and keywords. Yes, SEO might very soon become a thing of the past!
This simply means that we will be able to enjoy the internet more than ever. We will be able to intermingle with the internet the way we interact with the outside world today. We will be able to share thoughts with the internet and possibly get a response from it. The web won’t simply be a canvas where we can find our answers and solutions, but one that can understand our needs and provide us information and solutions that we have been looking for.
According to Mills Davis, founder and managing director of research consultancy Project10X, "The problem is that existing knowledge on the web is fragmented and difficult to connect. It is locked in data silos and operating-system file system formats … Web 3.0 changes this." So we will have access to large amounts of data – easily. Different applications will come together to provide a more enhanced experience to the user.
The end-user will therefore not be simply a consumer but become a "prosumer." It will be a kinship of internet users with the world wide web. We will be able to evolve the web according to our needs, and the web will be able to provide intelligent solutions, as it learns your requirements while you interact with it. It will know when you want to do what task and execute it for you. If you want to make a presentation, for instance, an intelligent user interface like Web 3.0 will know how you would want to present it and set it for you in the desired format.
Essentially, it will be an interactive web that will evolve with the user over a period of time to understand the user’s psychology, needs, habits, methods and requirements. The web will develop with its users to recognize habits of communities across the globe, across ages and even across aptitudes. Furthermore, you and I will be able to develop what the internet should be like and what it should offer.
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