Web 3.0 and beyond.

Future predictions for the web are already being made.  The word from Silicon Valley is ‘Web 3.0′.

According to the people building the internet of tomorrow the web in 2020 and beyond will be able to connect every aspect of our digital lives, the web is becoming smarter!

Those of us still trying to get to grips with Web 2.0 technologies need not worry yet,  the Web 3.0 developments are modernising the webs key index, not the user interface.  A recent article by Jonathan Richards in Timesonline highlights the Web 3.0 concept.  The idea of Web 3.0 is that of drawing together all our digital use for example e-mail, websites, PC files.  When typing an e-mail the Web 3.0 technologies will be able to suggest websites and books as well as documents, photos and videos you already have on your PC that relate to the topic of your e-mail.  The introduction of natural language technology, enables search engines to answer full questions, not just recognizing but understanding the question, searching the web sentence by sentence and returning results based on a general knowledge of language, specific concepts and their relationship with one another.

An end to trawling through search results to find the most applicable, this would be a huge help in the classroom making research tasks for pupils truly effective.

As one person commenting on the article puts it, “Bring it on!”