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I still don't understand what Web 2.0 is, but the next version is coming and I fear it. I don't want my MacBook getting inside my head—hell, even I don't want to be in there! "[T]he Web 3.0 browser will act like a personal assistant. As you search the Web, the browser learns what you are interested in. The more you use the Web, the more your browser learns about you and the less specific you'll need to be with your questions. Eventually you might be able to ask your browser open questions like 'where should I go for lunch?' Your browser would consult its records of what you like and dislike, take into account your current location and then suggest a list of restaurants."
"Some Internet experts believe the next generation of the Web — Web 3.0 — will make tasks like your search for movies and food faster and easier. Instead of multiple searches, you might type a complex sentence or two in your Web 3.0 browser, and the Web will do the rest. In our example, you could type "I want to see a funny movie and then eat at a good Mexican restaurant. What are my options?" The Web 3.0 browser will analyze your response, search the Internet for all possible answers, and then organize the results for you." [HowStuffWorks]
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Spiegelman, the photo is genius.
I will wait until Web 4.0 comes out. That will be where the computers and the internet actually work well on a fairly regular basis.
This is terrible. It'll render the Magic 8 Ball obsolete. Then what will become of the kitsch industry?
This is basically how the MacGuffin-ish intelligent search engine works in Akihabara@DEEP, [[www.amazon.co.jp]], a Japanese novel that came out in 2004. It didn't sound like an incredibly interesting development then, either, even though the book was pretty sure this kind of application for AI would revolutionize everything. The neat thing about the internet is the ability to bump into things that you wouldn't otherwise - why would robbing me of the unexpected please me? Or rather, why would I want it to?
For example: Yesterday I was rabid for crabcakes and avocado salad. Today not so much.
@VoxPopuli: Outlook not so good.
You need a better incentive structure for me to surrender the information necessary for such a system to be effective.
I don't think there IS a 3.0. I think we're at a stage on the S-curve where changes/improvements to the internet will be incremental at best. The great wave of innovation is over.
Onto the next frontier.
Will Web 3.0 poop for me? because sometimes I'm on the road, and it'd be awesome to open my intervoicenet, and ask it to poop for me.
Porn aficionados beware. There will be some very awkawrd moments when spouses borrow computers and search for eating out.
@valarmorghulis: Never. If there's one worldly pleasure I'm not going to give up, it's throne-time.
@Lymed: Yeah, it's gonna be uncomfortable when the lady and I ask our shared browser to come up with something we can watch together when we're feeling a little frisky. 'Cause she is way into dudes.
@moff: I don't want to give up throne time. jesus, what would I do with my day? I want to give up throne effort.
Yes - thanks for Captain Pike!
@moff: Maybe web 3.0 is how you'll learn that she also likes girls.
Glad we're still keeping the advancements of planet-wide network intelligence focused on telling me to go to Applebees and see What Happens In Vegas. The Singularity is going to be one constant Friday evening in suburban Detroit.
@belltolls: @belltolls:
exactly right on all counts
@valarmorghulis: I recommend (as I usually do, for anything) a steady diet of beer. That should provide the "all I did was sit down, and my ass dropped out from beneath me" feeling you're looking for.
If history is any indicator, the first thing Web 3.0 is gonna tackle will be a workable Casual Encounters. Something like this (EXCEPT WITHOUT THE SAD GIRLS):
+ Watch video
("How do we filter out the teases? We don't let them in.")
@Lymed: That's what I'm sayin' yo!
@ByTheWhiskersOfKurviTasch: The Singularity is going to be one constant Friday evening in suburban Detroit.
You chilled my very soul with that one, sir or madam. Please have mercy.
Guess I won't have to worry since I'm still running Panther on a PowerBook. (I'd still rather buy burritos and art books then upgrade.)
I do not want to be in the Uncanny Valley, having a knife fight with my browser. How is it possible that the same people who watch Battlestar will without any irony try to make computer programs that "assist"?
Close the pod bay doors, HAL.
@moff: So Web 3.0 will provide the beer? I'm cool with that.
Hi compu-3.0, it's a nice Sunday afternoon & my Mother's Day responsibilities are achieved - what do I do with the rest of my day?
beep-boop, smoke weed and watch Caddyshack, boop.
Damn, you give good web.
@jackvinyl: Damn, I'm coming over!
@Swifter: @NinaHagen: @jackvinyl: Agreed! Let's all get Piked!
I, for one, welcome my future Ray Kurtzweil wet-dream life.
Except for the whole only having 36mb storage in my head from Gibson thing. I think we've got at least a 4gig limit.
but mainly, for porn. as always.
@Swifter:
@Hez:
@jackvinyl:
@NinaHagen:
The future is all about Pike. Get Piked!
@mitchel_stevens: I wanna be someone's "rider".
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