Posted on April 23, 2009 by by valerirojas

When people think about the Internet most of the time they are thinking of social networks, file sharing, forums, blogs, chat-rooms, news aggregators, online gaming, virtual worlds, Google maps, youtube, search engines  and millions of other web technologies and applications.

That is a lot of information created in a very short time, since about 1989.

This is an article from the Canberra Times about it.

Just 23 per cent of the globe’s population currently uses the internet, according to the United Nation’s International Telecommunications Union, with use much higher in developed nations.

By contrast, just five per cent of Africans surf the web, it said in a report issued in March. Canberra Times

We have governments wanting to filter the net and control what we can or can’t access, there are also issues on what technologies or applications we should be using but I just can’t wait to see when people start using the so called W3.0 “Semantic Web“

Thoughts on semantic web by Tim Berners-Lee

“I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web – the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘Semantic Web’, which should make this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The ‘intelligent agents’ people have touted for ages will finally materialize.”

Can the Internet just get better or will someone try to just switch it off?

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