Reading the article, The Next Net 25, I wondered about the next form of web communication, web 3.0. It seems like the key words are mobile, IMs, friend tracking, and global. I think web 3.0 is ubiquitous computing environment where anyone can be communicated, and located regardless of physical proximity instantly.
My image here is a girl talking on her cell-phone with her boyfriend in another country as she locates him on Google Earth, and sees him walking down the street as he waving at her. Hre, you can be tracked by your friend so easily because computing system is ubiquitous, and it is mobile. You have no excuse anymore to be late on a date because your partner can locate you on the map. It is kind of scary, but what is scarier is that society has the capability to create such a system.
However, if we use it right, web 3.0 would be so useful in a way it makes everyone closer, and there would be no concept of physical proximity. You would have better understanding on people from other countries, and to contact someone would be much easier. World becomes smaller, and more secure under one integrated system.
Now, goes back to the downside, if you think about all the complex implementation behind the system to run a system such as database, and GPS, etc, it goes beyond our expectation. It is not just usefulness. It is like you are managed by the database, and monitored by Google Earth. World would become smaller, secure, but also tighter under one government of our cyber world: Google.
However, the future of web3.0 is on our hand. All the predictions that academics make is based on our need and interest. So, to predict web 3.0 should not be too hard, but just to ask ourselves what we really want.
