[Pointrel-discuss] What will Web 3.0 be? | Thought Palace

[Paul D. F. <pdf...@ku...>]

From:
   "What will Web 3.0 be?"
   http://jens.mooseyard.com/2009/02/what-will-web-30-be/
"There’s really no such single thing as “Web x“, of course. And all 
predictions are really just wishes. That being said, my wish is that Web 
3.0 will be about distributed systems. To oversimplify:
   Web 1.0 built up big brand-name websites with their own 
content—things written by them, or repurposed from the media companies 
that owned them, or stuff to buy.
   Web 2.0 embraced “user-created content” and interaction between 
users. The content creation has become less centralized, outsourced to 
whomever wants to register an account and post stuff, but the sites 
managing, storing and serving the content are still centralized.
   Web 3.0, I hope, will take the decentralization to the software, and 
the storage. Monolithic web apps run by huge server farms—Facebook, 
Blogger, Twitter, Flickr, etc.—will be at least in part supplanted by 
apps that users run locally (or at least ‘nearby’) and which share data 
among each other."

--Paul Fernhout
http://www.pdfernhout.net/
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The biggest challenge of the 21st century is the irony of technologies 
of abundance in the hands of those thinking in terms of scarcity.