Web 3

My vision of Web 3.0 is the ability to experience your websites without having to experience them. Artificial Intelligence would allow for mindless shopping. They could predict what you needed and wanted with pinpoint accuracy and find them for the cheapest price in the whole world. Web 3.0 would also have the utmost in security including hand-print scans and real digital signatures that you write on the screen that would make it so only certain law abiding citizens could access the web. Controlling the usage of the web would be no problem and little kids could go about freely on the web without being harassed or shoved with temptations. Also, hacking would be nearly impossible. The new Web 3.0 would be the safest and final version of the internet. Also, dial up speeds would never be an issue as technology allowed for an even amount of internet speed across the world. Web 3.0 will also allow customization of browsers as users will be able to “drag and drop” add-ons for the ultimate personalization. Everyone will have access to cloud computing and will never run out of space to save pictures and videos. Anthony Joslin

What I think web 3.0 will be is an advance in accessibility. We have already seen the beginning stages of 3.0 where you can access the World Wide Web from many different platforms. People will not only be able to access from PCs, laptops, and cell phones but home phones, radios, phone booths, maybe even on a touch screen monitor in the back of a taxi. Almost all products will become shareware were people won’t go to a store to buy a product, but instead will have friends to say “hay I’ve recently downloaded a neat little way of doing something, here I’ll send it to you.” Products that people make will be more like hobbies were they built it for their own use and then will up-load them to their own server for anyone who might want to use them. The internet will become more personally maintained and most people might even have their own servers on their cell or PDA. Illegal hacking will become almost obsolete as retina or thumb prints will be the only way to access personal files and information. The internet may be integrated will features such as GPS so that not only will it bring up what you are looking for, but will also tell you how to get there. Tyler Mashburn

Web 3.0, in my opinion, will have two major characteristics. The first being, as Tim-Berners Lee suggested, a semantic web. The web will be able to take data and, using emerging technologies, convert it into information that can easily be understood by humans. This will greatly improve the usability of the web and open new possibilities for businesses and individuals alike. Also, upon the advent of Web 3.0, we will notice an increased usage of the internet in everyday electronics and appliances. For example, we will be able to use our cell phones to log into and send a document on our home PC. This will move the internet from being merely information presented in a web browser to an omnipresent web that has many more applications. As to when and how it will finally arrive, I believe that is up to us. As Alan Kay, a computer scientist, once said, "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Gary Moats

So what does the future hold for Web 3.0? No one knows, but we all have our guesses. Some people say that in the future your web browser will become more of a personal assistant than something that displays web pages. It will gather information about where you like to eat, what kind of movies you like, and so on. Instead of doing multiple searches about one subject you would be able to type in a complex sentence, and let the web do the rest. I think that Web 3.0 will be able to do this and much more. I also think that Web 3.0 will bring some security issues but with thumbprint scanners and imaging technology advancing into the computer world, we shouldn’t have any problems. Also, I think that Web 3.0 will focus on connecting people with information instead of connecting people with people like Web 2.0 has. Throughout history, the World Wide Web has been through many changes. It went from being a boring place to look at information to an interactive social network. Soon, it will become your personal assistant that follows you everywhere and knows everything about you. Web 3.0 will be what we have been looking for. Grant Smith

When asked, “What are your predictions about Web 3.0?” there are a few things are brought to mind. First, I believe that Web 3.0 will surpass the previous versions in many ways. Supposedly, it will highly increase the usability, interactivity, and simplicity of the internet so everyone, “tech-savvy“ or not, will be able to use the internet easily. Experts say that this new and improved version of the web will be able to “learn”. For example, the web will become somewhat of a personal assistant. Starting out you will be able to type in one or two complex sentences into a search engine [Google for instance] and you will receive a list of results. As time goes on, you can type in shorter, more simple phrases and, based on your preferences and previous data, you will be given the list of results. In my honest opinion, this would have few uses for the average person. However, it may have more uses for business people and in the government. However, I am sure that there will be many other things that will compose the line of differences between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0; and most, unlike the above stated, will probably be more suited for not only the businesses but individuals alike. Caleb Shelton