Yes, if you’ve been keeping up, I’ve been preaching for several years now about Web 3.0. When I mention it, I usually get a look like a dog hearing a high pitched whistle. In fact, this might be the first place you’ve ever heard of this concept, so the reactions can be expected. Well, life as we know it in technology will be changing. In fact, we’re already seeing this change starting to take place. The fact is, once the global internet infrastructure can handle the demands of the what will be the biggest impact to technology since the computer itself, everything as you know it will change. Your daily life. Your daily routines. The way you interface and retrieve data. You’ve seen nothing yet.
Let’s take a look at some basic examples already following this inevitable future.
Browser-based Everything
Google is developing a variety of applications and programs that exist entirely within the browser. Their PAC-MAN game was a preview of what’s to come because it allowed in-browser play of a simple, lightweight video game that required no downloads and relied on pure HTML, CSS, and Javascript. At the company’s 2010 I/O conference, Google laid out its plans to develop “rich multimedia applications that operate within the browser” (according to this New York Times report on the conference). The company plans to sell in-browser web applications like photo editing software (imagine using a Photoshop equivalent entirely within the browser) that it will sell in a web applications store called the Chrome Web Store.
If our programs and applications are about to be folded into the browser, what will exist within the browser in ten years? Currency? Education? Consciousness? Why will anyone buy standalone computer software? They won’t. Our entire world will live and breath in a streaming real-time global internet infrastructure. Get ready…
