Web 4.0 And Beyond Part 3 | Science Fiction Becomes Social Media Reality

Your actual physical house will be connected to your web services. Geeks and techies will start to be connected all the time via data feeds that pip information right into your site (easy way to think about it is contact lenses that wirelessly connect to a computer and stream data from the net directly into your sight, so anywhere you go, via voice commands you can pull up information and perform sophisticated searches.

The physical world will be forever connected to the virtual one with 3d dimensional real world and fantasy world maps and interconnectivity between real and virtual devices. A 3d dimensional interfaces or 3d worlds, creating interactive video game like presentation that enable real work to be done. Say goodbye to the corporate cubicle.

The power of hive mentality and intelligence beyond any individual. Collaborative computing will trickle into mainstream driven by the ability to analyze and manipulate all that social data in almost real time. Web Services will spring up that will network thousands of people together from all of the world to work on the same project at the same time with all there tool completely online. The error of desktop software is already dead.

Distributed computing systems should give super computer processing to projects which combine the intelligence of the brightest humans the world has ever seen. Eventually, through specialization and adaptation of collaborative computing services, the program’s products and services produced by such ventures could exhibit an intelligence above what any of the individuals is capable of. A true, futuristic hive.

I’m a lover of science fiction and technology and, on occasion, I like to digress into a world of imagination. I blog for many reasons, but mainly because it’s fun, challenging and the best marketing tool I could possibly have. Welcome to the future. I suggest discarding your brochure site and start blogging now. Early adapters will reap large rewards and those that fail to keep up with technology will left in the proverbial dust.

Current forces driving web 3.0 technologies

1. The need to understand or relate what all the social, viral and splintered data online means;
2. The need to consolidate and manage all the various social networks, profiles, etc. across websites and platforms that individuals and companies wish to maintain (I have 400 profiles how about you?);
3. The need to eliminate all the tedium and human direction required to perform that require multiple data sources (like seeing which website offers the lowest price or best deal on blank).

Things to watch for

1. Introduction of many 3d worlds and interfaces for using / consuming information;
2. Personalization and real time combination and analysis for multiple data sources (social web and user driven web);
3. Web services which combine and analyize data and information from existing networks (bring all your friends);
4. Personal aggregation of likes and preferences of yourself in comparison with all of your friends and compatriots when determining relevancy;
5. Search results grouped in meaningful clusters of information with preliminary analysis already performed.

Big issues that will cause practical implementation issues and slow down it’s realization:

1. Privacy “ what if people don’t want / allow their data to be used? Already a problem in web 2.0;
2. Problems with human behavior causing relevancy and implementation obstacles.
   1. List of problems with meta data here http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm.

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This is the last part in a 3 part series:

1. Imagining Web 3.0 and Beyond Part 1 “ The Mind Blowing Evolution of the Social Web
2. Social Media’s Future Part 2 - The Beauty of Web 3.0
3. Web 4.0 and Beyond Part 3 | Science Fiction becomes Social Media Reality

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