From the World Wide Web to the Web Wide World
If you read only one article about the future of the web, what exactly Web 3.0 might become, go no further than this brilliant overview by Nova Spivack here, entitled: The Future of the Desktop.
In his own blog, he gives a brilliant summarizing of what it is all about.
Nova Spivack:
“Things are not going to turn out the way we thought. Instead of everything going digital — a future in which we all live as avatars in cyberspace — The digital world is going to invade the physical world. We already are the avatars and the physical world is becoming cyberspace. The idea that cyberspace is some other place is going to dissolve because everything will be part of the Web. The digital world is going physical.
When this happens — and it will happen soon, perhaps within 20 years or less — the notion of “the Web” will become just a quaint, antique concept from the early days when the Web still lived in a box. Nobody will think about “going on the Web” or “going online” because they will never NOT be on the Web, they will always be online.
Think about that. A world in which every physical object, everything we do, and eventually perhaps our every thought and action is recorded, augmented, and possibly shared. What will the world be like when it’s all connected? When all our bodies and brains are connected together — when even our physical spaces, furniture, products, tools, and even our natural environments, are all online? Beyond just a Global Brain, we are really building a Global Body.
The World is becoming the Web. The “Web Wide World” is coming and is going to be a big theme of the next 20 years.”
September 27th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Thanks for the nice review! I’ve posted it to my public twine.
October 2nd, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Yeah? Hmmmm. Well Gee. I’ve read another article about the future of Digital, it was published a while back by WiReD magazine and was enttiled; “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us“.