Revisited – Web 3.0, Scary or Exciting?

I would like to take a moment to revisit an older post of mine. After having a discussion with a colleague regarding what is next in the Internet? A simple discussion geared towards building a better web presence, I was brought back to this unreal, almost unimaginable theory by Kevin Kelly…(My interpretation)…

” The Internet will become a sort of “one being”, and the web as we know it will become it’s Operating System”…Imagine this people? An actual thinking, growing, learning “Artificial Intelligence” or “AI”! The Internet (From here on called “The One”) will have gathered Giga-Tera-Supercalafragalistic-Bytes of information, from and about, all of us! It will have developed a database so precise, that it will be able to service our every need, and not just from keystrokes, but from eventually, our thoughts. Experiments go on everyday on how to link a computer to our brainwaves, don’t be naive. Eventually, we will think what we want typed, it will transfer that to “The One”, and it will “intuitively” know where we want to go. What page of information we want to access. “The One” will be….

• Smarter -More specific, to the point of almost thinking for us.
• More Personalized – It will know each of intimately. This will come with complete “transparency”, our lives will be open to the world. (Homeland Security is already experimenting with this)
•  More Ubiquitous – It will be made up of our thoughts, our data, it will be part of us.
• It will be, a living “Digital Organism”, joining the current “6 Kingdoms of Life” as #7

Now my question to each of you is simple…Scary or Exciting? I think it’s time to start thinking about this again, and I will be writing more and more about this is the future. For now, what do you think?

Look forward to hearing from you

The Coach