We’re all looking to the future now, something brighter than the fallen dreams and crushed hopes of yesterday.  That’s not me being bitter, it’s me looking at my wallet.  With the future, we can all think of bigger things: better phones, smaller laptops, and a cleaner, neater, friendlier Web 3.0.

The idea goes like this:

An imaginary girl named Lucy, whose mother has just been told by her doctor that she needs to see a specialist. “At the doctor’s office, Lucy instructed her Semantic Web agent through her handheld Web browser,” we read. “The agent promptly retrieved information about Mom’s prescribed treatment from the doctor’s agent, looked up several lists of providers, and checked for the ones in-plan for Mom’s insurance within a 20-mile radius of her home and with a rating of excellent on trusted rating services.” [1]

What it really means is this: throwing away all that fear and dread that comes with providing way too much information on the interwebs and embracing that which pops the personal bubble.

Footnotes:

[1] Coauthored by Berners-Lee in Scientific American (Read More)