Evolution of the Web: from 1.0 to 4.0

We know we are currently in the Web 2.0 era. But what’s next? Here’s the short story.

1.0 The Web (original) – Connects information
2.0 The Social Web – Connects people
3.0 The Semantic Web – Connects knowledge
4.0 The Ubiquitous Web – Connects intelligence

Toast has partnered with a new research group from UQAM (a Québec public university), the Col@b. This type of R&D, such as the evolution of the socio-technical Web, is what we work on with this group.

(source Talis)

(photo via isayx3)

June 10, 2010 , Alexandre Gravel // This post was posted in Interactive, Social web, Toast. Bookmark the permalink.

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  1. Sareh dit:
    March 16, 2011 to 05:34

    Could u explain more about web 4.0?

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    • Alexandre Gravel dit:
      April 1, 2011 to 16:12

      In Web 3.0, knowledge (content) will connect itself to one another through aumatisation, facilitating navigation through the ever growing quantity available.

      In web 4.0 (and we’re far away from this), knowledge will actually evolve from its current base, meaning that we’ll rather be talking about connecting intelligence to one another in that the more we connect, the more we will understand and create new knowledge.

      Hope this is a initial path of clarification!
      A.

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