Trevor Cook quite rightly points to my exuberance yesterday and asks if the object of my obvious affection was just Web2.0 delivering on its promise, or really is Web3.0.
Great question, Trevor! Time will tell, no doubt, if what I’ve seen indeed does fulfill the promise (I’m in no doubt myself!).
But concomitant with the question comes the underlying question “just WTF IS Web2.0 and Web3.0, Hopkins?”
To answer I turn to the source of all wisdom and knowledge on these matters: Wikipedia.
Reed Hastings, at a TechSummit in late 2006 summed it up this way:
“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″
Yahoo founder Jerry Yang, at the same summit, said:
“We are seeing that manifest in Web 2.0 and 3.0 will be a great extension of that, a true communal medium… the distinction between professional, semi-professional and consumers will get blurred, creating a network effect of business and applications” (my emphasis)
Gary Hayes, legendary digital media guru, charted the future of Web technology yonks* ago:
And by the term ‘live’ in Gary’s chart, I am sure he means ‘live’ as in ‘to live in’ rather than ‘live’ as in “tonight, live at the Apollo Stadium, Adelaide, the number one rock and roll band in the land…”
As was once sung in student beer halls around the western world, the future’s so bright I gotta wear shades!
* yonks = ‘ages’
