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Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified. The lawyer has at his touch the associated opinions and decisions of his whole experience, and of the experience of friends and authorities. The patent attorney has on call the millions of issued patents, with familiar trails to every point of his client's interest.Wikipedia, anyone?
Web 2.0 is making good on Bush's prediction that people will have vast electronic compilations of information with "associative trails" connecting ideas and concepts running through them. In the Web 2.0 model, users are asked to create these "associative trails" in a number of ways: through tagging pages, pictures, and media with keywords, leading to the creation of folksonomies which other users can use to find information, and through "human filtering" when they rate content on the Web. Social interaction is being used to shape and create content on the Web more and more.
Here are my questions, and you can answer any of them you like:
1) What did Bush get wrong? What changes, technologies, or concepts could he not have forseen sixty years ago that we take for granted today?
2) What do you think about the ideas behind Web 2.0? Is it really such a great idea to allow anyone to create and categorize content on the Web? Are all "associative trails" valuable to all users?
3) What do you think Web 3.0 will be like?
September 6 2006, 00:54:34 UTC 5 years ago
Question 2
Knowing the potential Web 2.0 has in respect to the ability of anyone with Internet access to publish themselves and their ideas is exciting. New, innovative Web sites that utilize this Web 2.0 concept seem to be cropping up frequently. From wiki software and how it's used in the increasingly popular Wikipedia to publishing one's identity to a social networking site like MySpace, user-driven networks are taking over the Internet, in a sense. The main reason to admire this Web revolution is that it transforms passive users into active users, essentially making the Internet even more useful for anyone and everyone. Associative trails (like tagging videos on YouTube, for example) help people with a certain interest to discover like-minded material, which in turn creates a greater social network between these now-active users. Overall, it'll be very interesting to see just how far Web 2.0 can go in terms of the user-driven Internet community.