Web 3.0

Pre-cursor Web 2.0
Welcome again to a new wave of thought. Now that Web 2.0 has officially replaced web 1.0, large parts of content and traffic are no longer generated by proprietary companies with copyrights but rather it is now up to the users themselves to generate such content and drive traffic.

Leading the current wave are Blogs and Social Media such as Facebook, Friendster and MySpace. The power of such content has impacted and changed how society is beginning to work from the ground up. It's a classic example of how the virtual influence affects the brick and mortar.

A simple yet powerful example of this influence would be the ability to simply google a person your about to hire for your company. You could find out his facebook account, blog details and even the friends that he hangs out with online. This will completely change your opinion of hiring this person or not. And this is all because of web 2.0, it's because the users themselves put their own preferences and expose themselves to the public.

Baby Web 3.0
Now comes Web 3.0. What is web 3.0? It's often touted a move towards an integration of the virtual and reality. So what would it look like? It would be moving of reality based learning in the classrooms into virtual classrooms; complete with a 3D environment, an instructor as well as individual students that you can see, hear and feel in a hyper realistic manner. One such example available today would be 2nd life, where you can create anything you desire into virtual reality.

The probable full integration of Web 3.0 would be an advent of new technology such as spectacles with inbuilt monitors, advanced wireless broadband nation-wide and integration of professional "graphical overlays" or "skins" that would simplify everyday life.

A vision of Web 3.0
Here's a hypothetical scenario of a complete Web 3.0 experience. Imagine waking up in the morning and the first thing you do after the morning trip to the washroom to get ready for you day is to wear your stylish shades with the inbuilt monitor by 'Rayban'. As you get changed, you access your daily morning mail and handle your bills which just came in. You notice a memo from your company calling you in for a meeting later in the afternoon.

As you leave the house, you book your travel arrangements such as your plane ticket and your hotel for your vacation over the weekend via your shades. As you get into your car, you notice a stranger driving into the lot next to yours and your shades identify the person in the car as your new next door neighbor. You send him a welcome to the neighborhood greeting card as you leave your parking space.

After you get into the office, you turn on your office helper "Modification" changes your monitor to update the latest happenings regards to the company, the current attendance of employees who have called in sick and your company stock value. As you sit at your desk you see virtual documents piled up high past the ceiling. It looks like it's going to be another long day indeed.

Back to Reality
That future isn't so far fetched, infact it looks poised to happen within this lifetime. The benefits of it are immense, we will stop using paper which in turn saves the trees and we might find it easier to interact with others because we can avoid the embarassment of forgetting another person's name. We will never be lost because of inbuilt landmark recognition, there's so many possibilities and so many applications.

Just imagine. Alauz Out!

Idiots of today, Geniuses of tomorrow
今日の馬鹿，明日わ天才