Web 3.0: Enter the matrix

When I attended college decades back in the early 1990ies, for students of information technology the future looked bright and safe. The cold war was over, the web was growing fastly, and thanks to the pill's baby bust it was clear that everybody able to program computers would have a safe job for livetime. While I had some experience with modems and fido net before, it actually was in college where I first touched The Web. With a blazing speed of 64Kb/s over a single ISDN channel, 25 students at one time had the chance to surf it concurrently. While there was not so much thrilling entertainment in the web back then, though we spend lots of hours to try out this new medium. In my small home town, I was one of the first customers of the first internet provider, using the web mostly for scientific purposes. Since that time, a lot has changed. The web made its way into the live of everybody in the western world. Having no Facebook account or not having seen the latest #fail videos on YouTube is a bigger reason for getting dissed for a current child than wearing no Reeboks and Levis in our times. And having no internet banking or web shopping account makes our lives rather complex in the times of closing branches. In fact, I have to confess to do more than 75% of my purchas on the web. Even my rather old parents-in-law, who never had used a compute...

Date: May, 16 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/mkarg/archive/2010/05/16/web-30-semantic-web

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