Today after day long meeting I could feel the heat and urgency of a web solution for information exchange. now i had to be vague while describing the problem for a reason because the requirement is such that i don’t need a blog or a forum but i needed a solution were in lot of people can access lot of data with out redundancy, they also should be able to edit and change multiple files in multiple ways, the files are nothing but its about there work there day to day schedule, assessments, predictions, results, projections, happy moments, secrets, computer commands, working and class notes, photos, videos, everything that is information for them all these requirements apply to various layers in which these people are categorised. So the search started and i am still not satisfied with the answers that i got. but as the search is on i came across a topic that was well discussed a while ago and was forgotten it was about web 2.0. There was also a discussion about web 3.0 it sounds too futuristic and crazy.
but as i recollected the technologies that we have now i could see nothing but 80 to 90 % of the technologies have been realised of web 2.0 and i don’t see a point in dream of web 3.0, also I don’t feel that its too far from now. The only reason that we still are in the transition of web 1.0 to web 2.0 is the infrastructure. I don’t think it will take much time for us to move from web 2.0 to web 3.0 provided we have a break through in Internet speeds.
Reasons for my prediction is simple all that has been discussed and described of web 2.0 technologies have been realised, we have discovered Ajax, blogs, forums, open maps, social network systems. The data is flowing with a certain speed the max can be some TB/s (Tera Bytes per second) and min can be some b/s (bits per second) and the apps, softwares that we are working can take up the speed. but we haven’t yet designed an app or a software that is independent of speed i mean to say Internet speed. just image the wonders that we could do when the speed is no longer the barrier.
I feel that this can be the break point or burst of new ideas and innovations for the mankind. Its not going to happen that easily. When I am talking about independent Internet speed that means each and every computer, mobile phone, gps systems and every thing else that is a part of the grid or others like to call it as cloud has no min or max speed. This grid is a massive collection of information and it gets updated every fraction or you can even further divide the fractions into sub parts and at every such sub part the grid gets updated. well this will lead us to another interesting topic of calculating number of updates in a give time let us leave this problem to the physists.
My whole point is that who is going to control this grid? well its simple one person or a group of people can’t control it if that is the case than we are all lost. so i would like to conclude by saying that are we going to control the grid or give this responsibility to a few people like the CEO’s and CFO’s of today?
I will continue this column and keep posting on this topic. and this post in not completed yet it has just started off with lot of questions.
I would like to describe web 3.0 in the words of few renown people.
Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google–
“I would tell you that it’s a different way of building applications… My prediction would be that Web 3.0 will ultimately be seen as applications which are pieced together. There are a number of characteristics: the applications are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the applications can run on any device, PC or mobile phone, the applications are very fast and they’re very customizable. Furthermore, the applications are distributed virally: literally by social networks, by email. You won’t go to the store and purchase them… That’s a very different application model than we’ve ever seen in computing.”
Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix
“Web 1.0 was dial-up, 50K average bandwidth, Web 2.0 is an average 1 megabit of bandwidth and Web 3.0 will be 10 megabits of bandwidth all the time, which will be the full video Web, and that will feel like Web 3.0.”
What i feel personally is that web 3.0 is not about bandwidth’s, semantic Web, faster apps. But its all about every one of us. This is a lengthy and a more serious topic to be discussed, may be i will write more on this in my later blog posts.