Imagine you wanted to watch a comedy and take some Chinese food after that. You turn on your laptop, open a Web browser, and Googled for theater, movie and restaurant information. You spend some time reading the synopsis of each film and customer reviews for the restaurants. You also want to look for a Chinese restaurant that is close to the theatre. In summary, you visited a dozen of Web sites before you are ready to leave the house.
Web 3.0 will make these tasks faster and easier. Instead of multiple searches, you can type a complex sentence or two in your Web 3.0 browser, and the Web will do the rest. For what you wanted to do, you could type "I want to see a funny movie and then eat at a good Chinese restaurant. What are my options?" The Web 3.0 browser will analyze your response, search the Internet for all possible answers, and then organize the results for you.
The Web 3.0 browser is also a personal assistant. As you search the Web, the browser LEARNS what you like. The more often you use the Web, the more your browser learns about you and the less specific you'll need to be with your questions. Eventually you might be able to ask your browser open questions like "where should I go for lunch?" Your browser would consult its records of what you like and dislike, take into account your current location and then suggest a list of restaurants.
“In its current state, the Web is often described as being in the Lego phase, with all of its different parts capable of connecting to one another. Those who envision the next phase, Web 3.0, see it as an era when machines will start to do seemingly intelligent things.”
- John Markoff, The New York Times
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