Web 3.0

            Web 3.0 is the stage in which computers will begin to pick up humanistic qualities. With Web 1.0, a producer simply makes a product and a consumer simply takes in that product and that is that. Then came Web 2.0 and the lines that were between producer and consumer became blurred. A producer still made a product and the consumer took it in, but now there’s more to it. The consumer can now also be a producer. The author of the article, Miko Coffey, used Facebook as an example for Web 2.0. With Facebook, not only does a person take in information, but also produces his or her own with status updates and photo and video sharing. Produces can also be consumers on Facebook through things such as reviews.

            Coffey used an analogy about soup to describe Web 3.0, or what she calls the “semantic web.” In the example, she says that you can take two pots — one with a carrot and one with pasta — and label them as such, and a computer can understand that. What the computer can’t understand, however, is what exactly is contained in the carrot, that the pots are right next to each other, or any specific details about the guests you’d have coming over for that dinner.

            That is where Web 3.0 would come into play — the computer understands the bigger picture and all the more in-depth, meaningful details. Web 3.0 would see the computer be able to take details and information from various sources and put it all together. This also allows the computers to think more human-like. With Web 3.0, not only would computers be more knowing and analytical, it can allow you to get more answers to more questions.