The New Web 3.0.... Extra Credit

After evaluating web 2.0 and 3.0, as well as looking at how the internet has been evolving over time, I think that web 3.0 will continue to advance and work even better for the users with time. As society has progressed technology has gone through so many changes and advancements. We now use technology for so many aspects of our everyday lives. It does at certain points seem as though we have become completely dependent on technology now. In my opinion I agree with Kelly in that the machines are an extension of humans and not the opposite as Mcluhan claimed. Kevin Kelly discussed his opinion on the connection between humans and machines which was opposite of what Mcluhan discussed.

In the article “How Web 3.0 Will Work” by Jonathan Strickland he discusses how the new web 3.0 could work for us and show many changes. He begins by using an example of someone who wants to go out to see a comedy movie and then to dinner afterwards. Changes that web 3.0 could offer us is the ability to do what we would call “one stop shopping.” With web 3.0 we could possibly enter in the question “I want to see a funny movie and then eat at a good Mexican restaurant. What are my options?” Strickland says that the new internet will be able to analyze this question and the possible answers and filter out results which directly apply to your question. He goes on to discuss the possibility of the web 3.0 acting almost as a personal assistant, in that the internet will be able to learn and pinpoint things that the individual user is interested in. The internet is going to get increasingly interactive as it continues to improve. In the future of web we may not need to choose what we are interested in or looking for but the web may be able to do this for you.

The author claims that in order to understand where web 3.0 is going, we need to see what the web has evolved from but web 2.0 is not very widely understood. One of the main characteristics of web 2.0 is the ability for users to alter certain websites in which you can post or edit the information to add your opinion or point of view. There are also now many website in which users create the content, such as youtube, blogs, Wikipedia, etc. Also, the popularity of social networking websites has exploded in the past century. Some of the most popular websites currently are Facebook and Twitter which are social networking websites. Web 2.0 is also characterized by the ability to access it anywhere without any wires or cords allowing wireless connection on many other technology devices, not just computers.

In “Web 3.0” by Cade Metz the changes of web 2.0 to web 3.0 are discussed. Web 3.0 is also called the Semantic Web which is a term coined by Tim Berners-Lee, which is the inventor of the World Wide Web. Although the web 3.0 has many positive effects, there are many people who are very skeptical of the changes of the internet. These people are generally not interested in keeping up with the new developments and feel left behind with all of the new changes. These people are generally people who do not support any technological advancement.

In my opinion the new advancements in the current web 2.0 will allow for much easier use of the internet. Although no one can pinpoint exactly what web 3.0 will allow the users to do or the specific changes that we will see compared to web 2.0, we do know for sure that there will be a lot of changes with web 3.0. It is amazing to look at how quickly and how much the internet has evolved just in its short time being so widely used. The World Wide Web was first started just about 20 years ago and we have already seen so many changes, especially within the last couple years.

Internet has quickly become one of the fastest and easiest ways to communicate. The internet allows for communication throughout the world without the high costs of phone calls or traveling in order to see someone who is across the world. Not only can you now email or instant message someone, you can video chat through any of the numerous mediums through the internet. The internet allows for instantaneous communication but without the high costs and it is a universal system throughout the majority of the world.

Being a communication major following the positives and negatives and the constant changes of the internet is very relative and interesting. The internet, as discussed before, allows for a lot of great communication abilities. I think that the new web 3.0 is very interesting and offers the users great advantages. The people who do not keep up with the changes with technology are really doing themselves a disfavor. The advantages of not only the internet but other technology reach every part of daily life. I do not however think that we should too heavily depend on them, however, we should just use them to our advantage while still maintaining the more traditional ways of life, such as communicating face to face. There is no way to predict the exact changes that we will see with the Web 3.0 but we can only look forward to it and learn the new ever-changing ways of the internet.