Showing posts with label WWW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label WWW. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

The Future of the Web

In class we talked about Web 2.0 and the changes that have been made from Web 1.0, which allows us to have more interactive web sites rather than sites used only for retrieving information. Therefore, you do not need to go to 20 different websites to see everything you want to see. Instead, you only have to view a "half dozen." In the future, you won't even have to view that many sites to get the information you want. How is this possible? The answer is Web 3.0. It will allow for searches to become faster and easier, and you will be able have multiple searches through typing just one complex sentence. Relax, the Web will do the rest.

An example of a sentence you could type into your browser would be the following: "I want to see a funny movie and then eat at a good Mexican restaurant. What are my options?" The browser will then analyze your response, search the Internet for all possible answers, and then organize the results for you. This is known as the semantic web, which means that the meaning of information and services on the web is defined. The information will be understood by computers, and therefore, they will be able to perform more of the "tedious work" involved in finding, combining, and acting upon information on the web.
Will this make us lazier? Maybe. However, I feel the damage has already been done as far as the ability to retrieve information quickly and easily, so why not make it easier? It will save us more of our valuable time because it will be able to aid in decision-making. That's right, it will be like having our own personal assistant. The browser is going to have the ability to learn our interests. After your browser learns more about you, it will be able to answer questions for you, like "where should I go for lunch?" It will then look through records of what you like, what you don't like, and where you are currently located in order to making a suggestion for you.

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