In an article in Times Online, a UK-based tech publication, Tim Berners Lee is quoted as saying that Google could eventually be displaced as the leading brand of the Internet by Web 3.0 style technologies.
Specifically, Berners-Lee believes that the semantic web could be the thing to do this, eventually connecting people to all sorts of information. Whereas Web 2.0 involves connection of people to other people via the Web, Web 3.0 would involve connecting people to any type of information in an almost sci-fi like manner.
The article has some interesting stuff. Of course, an obvious interesting point about all this info linking brought up in the comments is the security risk that could be posed by having certain information too readily available.
This is one of those posts that really makes me scratch my head... I mostly get web 2.0, but some of the things about the Semantic web still don't sink in and make complete sense to me yet. I don't doubt that TBL is an innovative and forward thinker. I just think this idea of the Semantic Web is still quite in its infancy. Most organization, are, I think, still trying to come to grips with the Social Web (2.0). The next generation is becoming technically possible now. I think we still need to see it sink deeper into the consumer consciousness in order to come up with the value propositions that will make it feasible.
Some days, I want less data. Period. Not more complex ways to integrate more data.
Dennis