Though till now, we are still at Web 2.0, it doesn't hurt to envision what is coming in the future! To imagine what the future of the internet will bring us! It is actually filled with endless possibilities !
Before going to the future future, first, lets look at Web 3.0, the one that we can look forward to right away as it is coming to us soon!
Web 3.0
--> Moving on from Web 2.0, Web 3.0 is the Intelligent Web where technologies basically are able to think due to machine learning capabilities as well as machine reasoning. It is therefore predicted to be able to better serve human's needs as it can gather data base on our day to day interactions with the machine and from there remember our thinking pattern. For example, a microwave is able to determine the amount of time you usually set for a donut for example (like how i usually set it to 8 mins), it will automatically set that as its settings when I put a donut in the microwave.
We also learned about the term called the "Internet Of Things" which by definition is known as the wireless network between objects, and this network will usually be wireless and self configuring. As mentioned in my example with the microwave above. From this, we can be prepared to experience the feeling of connection in just about anything (of course by connection i mean through the WIFI)
However though the future may be exciting and all with literally the environment interacting with us, there is still some causes for worry as there can be some issues with privacy where with information being available everywhere, its hard to filter the information so that only some people can see it. Example, the shopping scenario where "when entering the doors, scanners will identify the tags on out clothing"( wow to me that is kinda intrusive as some people wouldn't want even the machines to know what size of clothes that they are wearing.
Therefore there will be two greatest challenges
1) Privacy and Security
2)Absence of governance
Yes, the future may be very interesting and awesome with the machines being intelligent enough to make our lives easier by collecting personal data from us, there may be greater problems of security arising out of it and in order to make Web 3.0 a pleasant change, we should think of the possible ways to get around these huge problem right now.
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