Kevin Kelly

My main issue with Kevin Kelly's speech was the dramatization. I felt almost like I was watching an infomercial salesman, trying to sell his concept of Web 3.0 with charts and pictures. He brought up some interesting points, trying to use factual evidence (for instance the number of clicks per day- 100 billion- or the number of online links- 50 trillion) as support for his argument. However, some of his proposed arguments about the internet in the future seemed a little far-fetched to me. He proposed this idea that the internet would be one compact machine and that the rest of the world would just be viewing it on individual portals- computer screens, smartphones, etc. As he said, humans would become an extension of the machine. Everything would be part of the web, be owned by the web. Perhaps the reason that I found this hard to believe is just because it's such a vast and intimidating concept. It sounds almost like the plot-line for a science fiction movie. Also, the way he was proposing it made it seem like it was fact, set in stone, and that it would happen sometime in the near future. I can't see a change like that happening overnight, but a gradual process taking place maybe over the next decade or so.

Article about Web 3.0- taken over by Web 2.0

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2102852,00.asp

This is an article about Web 3.0 and the Semantic Web. Though the article itself was relatively interesting, what I found most interesting was how completely taken over by Web 2.0 it was. There was endless amounts of tagging within the article, pop up advertisements when the mouse moved over random, unrelated words on the page, and advertisements lining the article.

Web 3.0 Predictions

I forsee Web 3.0 going in the direction proposed by internet experts in Jonathan Strickland's article. I think the main changes will be in Web 3.0's ability to process information; for instance, it is proposed that Web 3.0 will not only be able to remember individual searchs but will also be able to create a profile of likes and dislikes that it can base future searches off of. As scary as it is to think about, the computer will literally be able to understand what you are searching for, not just searching keywords. This is a really big step because it will be re-creating the basic fundamentals of searching the internet. Once this is completed, there will be endless opportunities to continue building, creating a more complex yet more manageable internet.

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