Looking say 12-13 years back, did anyone think of current form of web? I am talking about very early days of internet- when, to put up the web page on the internet people had to learn a markup language or contact a web site designer, when sending email was so fascinating. There was instant messenger, chat rooms where you could log in and talk to your friends who were available at that time.
Today with Web 2.0, especially with social networking sites like facebook, MySpace, twitter, flicker, blogs, Wikipedia, the face of web has changed completely. It has evaluated to its current form in around a decade's time. It has become more collaborative. Now uploading your data on web has become very easy with RSS. Sharing content, movies, pictures has become so easy that any common man who is not aware of underlying technology can share his views, broadcast the message to all his friends in one go, upload and share pictures/videos very easily. Internet is now accessible through cell phone too, which keeps people connected all the time.
In the very early days internet was just linking of machines (PCs). It has rapidly changed to linking of pages and making the same information accessible from mobile phones and other such devices. Same information is now available in different formats like text as well as audio and conversion happens on the go, as per the need.
What next? Future of web (for that matter web3.0) is very fascinating as well as scary. Technically it would mean linking of data in the page and not just the page. It focuses on building intelligence into the current form of web wherein by typing 'pune' the web would know that it's some location in India. It would have all other information available related to pune like its weather, landmarks etc. This is what is called as semantic web. Any word that appears web will know what it means. And it would be linking things related to that particular word together. Another aspect of future web is every day machines that we use like car, washing machine etc (anything you can think of, can be your pen) would be window the web. Everything would be chip based and would be connected to web. This is part of augmented reality.
All this is coming up really fast and 10 years from now we might have many of these things in place. You might have some small gadget in your pocket (I will call it your buddy) always, who is going to guide you for everything. Say you are hungry and want to have a MacD. You just express your thoughts and your buddy is going to give you information on the nearest MacD restaurant, traffic conditions, cost of the burger, weather conditions outside, approx time it will take for the delivery of burger at MacD and lot more. This is really fascinating but it has other side too. It would make everyone very much dependant. Also there would be some evil forces that could also use the same media adversely. Whatever it might be but at this time, this seems to be very attractive to explore and work upon.
Today with Web 2.0, especially with social networking sites like facebook, MySpace, twitter, flicker, blogs, Wikipedia, the face of web has changed completely. It has evaluated to its current form in around a decade's time. It has become more collaborative. Now uploading your data on web has become very easy with RSS. Sharing content, movies, pictures has become so easy that any common man who is not aware of underlying technology can share his views, broadcast the message to all his friends in one go, upload and share pictures/videos very easily. Internet is now accessible through cell phone too, which keeps people connected all the time.
In the very early days internet was just linking of machines (PCs). It has rapidly changed to linking of pages and making the same information accessible from mobile phones and other such devices. Same information is now available in different formats like text as well as audio and conversion happens on the go, as per the need.
What next? Future of web (for that matter web3.0) is very fascinating as well as scary. Technically it would mean linking of data in the page and not just the page. It focuses on building intelligence into the current form of web wherein by typing 'pune' the web would know that it's some location in India. It would have all other information available related to pune like its weather, landmarks etc. This is what is called as semantic web. Any word that appears web will know what it means. And it would be linking things related to that particular word together. Another aspect of future web is every day machines that we use like car, washing machine etc (anything you can think of, can be your pen) would be window the web. Everything would be chip based and would be connected to web. This is part of augmented reality.
All this is coming up really fast and 10 years from now we might have many of these things in place. You might have some small gadget in your pocket (I will call it your buddy) always, who is going to guide you for everything. Say you are hungry and want to have a MacD. You just express your thoughts and your buddy is going to give you information on the nearest MacD restaurant, traffic conditions, cost of the burger, weather conditions outside, approx time it will take for the delivery of burger at MacD and lot more. This is really fascinating but it has other side too. It would make everyone very much dependant. Also there would be some evil forces that could also use the same media adversely. Whatever it might be but at this time, this seems to be very attractive to explore and work upon.
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