A Brave New World: Web 3.0
Found an odd post on a newly revamped blog called Web 3.0. What's it promoting? Why Web 3.0 of course, which will (putatively) link artificial intelligence and the web.
If you think that seems a bit circular and self promoting, that's probably because you're right. Nonetheless, there's some content there. Some stuff to struggle with, some good examples. It's not all fluff and hype. Not by a long shot.
The fact that the general public hasn't really caught on to Web 2.0 doesn't really mean much given the cultural logic of the investment community because it's all about getting in on the ground floor. In other words I don't have a problem, per se, with rolling out Web 3.0 before my mother knows what Web 2.0 is. (Sorry Mom. Didn't mean to put you on the spot.) My skepticism is fueled by the fact that all of the examples the writer gives have to do with companies exploiting the labor of human beings who'll be doing their marketing research for them under the guise of their having fun.
Social networking and data mining taken to the next logical step. What's better than poorly paid workers in Asian techno-sweatshops? Why unpaid workers in the developed world, of course. It has the evil ring of authenticity to it, doesn't it folks?
With apologies to Miranda and the Bard, "O brave new world, that hath such technologies/economic systems in it."
Via Slashdot, of course.