Web 3.0 is arriving
Many don’t know Web 1.0 yet, and few are familiar with Web 2.0. And here comes Google CEO Eric Schmidt to christen Web 3.0 even if it’s still an idea based on what we see today.
Tim Berners Lee invented the WWW as a way of sharing text documents, hypertext to be precise, the the Interned went commercial and, between 1997 and 2002 (give or take a few months) and the brochure-site prevailed. Here reigned design and vapour-content designed just to fill some space (unfortunately this trend is still going on).
In 1999 the bubble burst and then, with the new century well underway, Web 2.0 was born. The best definition probably is still that “small pieces loosely joined” that in few words is able to contain the concept of a cloud of application and services that interact to obtain the desired result.
Here is the video where Schmidt explains:
The “Cloud” concept had already been applied to Tag Clouds and, according to Schimdt, this concept will be the essence of Web Three-point-oh (3.0). 2.0 has already brought many interesting things, moreover the inherent fluidity of this environment will certainly not bring about an abrupt transition from 2.0 to 3.0 rather, according to the perpetual beta tradition, we can expect a gradual evolution. We might even say that the mistake lies in trying to precisely catalog the “versions” of a network environment that does not sustain this tendency to file these successive releases as totally different things. This, too, is the legacy of software applications installed on our PC that need to be updated to the next release after a few years, to dubious advantage and sure costs. But this aspect is also on the decline, applications will be virally distributed via social networks and data will be contained in the network, within the cloud.
In Schimdt words, Web 3.0 will be: “A different way of building applications. Applications that are pieced together, the applications are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the applications can run on any device, PC or mobile phone, the applications are very fast and they are very customizable, and furthermore the applications are distributed virally, literally by social networks, email, you will not purchase in a store.”
