Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.
I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web–the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The ‘intelligent agents’ people have touted for ages will finally materialize.
Webfather Tim Berners-Lee first envisioned this so-called “semantic web” more than a decade ago. Given the astonishing speed at which we’ve seen the internet evolve over the last several years, you’d think we would have arrived by now.
Unfortunately, “our ability to create information has far exceeded our ability to manage it,” according to BBN Technologies’ John Hebeler, just one of the many scary-smart people interviewed by NYU student Kate Ray for her fascinating new documentary on Web 3.0.
With the billions (and soon trillions) of pages now available to us, a thinking, analytical web that understands and fulfills our requests for information while minimizing the need for human intervention—and thinking, for that matter—may be as far removed from Google as the search engine is from the card catalog. This doc is a pointed reminder that we really have no clue what’s coming next. Exciting and scary as hell, right?
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This is a really scary thought and it is amazing where the world and the Internet has evolved to! Very interesting video, thank you for sharing, Russell
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