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Web 4.0 and beyond?
EDU 626 Integrating Educational Technology
Summer 2012

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A 2006 prediction
Web 4.0: A New Hype
‒ Web 4.0 is the impending state at which all
information converges into a great ball of
benevolent self-aware light, and solves
every problem from world peace to
why Lost stinks this season. All humans
will begin working 24x7 to feed our new
data overlord on a steady diet of
email, PowerPoint foils, and cute pictures
of our grandkids and/or dogs.
‒ Posted by Jeff Moriarty on November 14, 2006
‒ Apparently no longer available
‒ Quoted in blog a NeW hYpE….WEB 4.0 (March 3, 2009)

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Something more sober?
Compare Spivack‟s comments
in interview quoted in article
“What is „Web 3.0,‟ and should
you care?” that Web 3.0 is “the
third decade of the Internet.”
How the WebOS Evolves? By Nova Spivack FEBRUARY 09, 2007

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Another, maybe clearer?
Web4 Posted by Seth Godin on January 19, 2007
‒ Tim O‟Reilly coined the term Web
2.0. . . . Web 2.0 pages encourage
community and user-generated content.
‒ Web 3 is the brainchild of Tim Berners-
Lee, largely credited for inventing the world
wide web in the first place. It‟s more
commonly called the Semantic Web.
‒ Web4 is about making connections, about
serendipity and about the network taking
initiative.

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Examples from Godin?
I’m typing an email to someone . . .
‒ and we‟re brainstorming about doing a
business development deal with Apple. A
little window pops up and lets me know that
David over in our Tucscon office is already
having a similar conversation with Apple
and perhaps we should coordinate.
‒ My PDA knows I‟m going to a convention.
Based on my email logs, it recommends who
I ought to see while I‟m there--because my
friends have opted in to our network and
we‟re in sync. See more at Web4

6. The Immersive Web?
Web 4.0: What it is and when it’s coming
• If Web 2.0 is Facebook and Twitter - the read/write
web, where people upload content as well as
consuming it; and Web 3.0 is the data web - where
everything has a digital footprint and presence and
where your phone means you take the internet with
you wherever you go, and the Internet of Things
brings objects from cars to microwaves online;
Web 4.0 is a different kettle of fish.
• Here's Tom Jenkins‟ [of Canadian company Open
Text] take on what Web 4.0 will bring:
− “It‟s immersive and it‟s the avatar web. It will be a
virtual world…”
− By Anna Leach on April 7, 2011

7. Wasn‟t this touted as Web 3.0?
Well, yes, back in 2010, even:
−Web 3.0: The Immersive Web
− CES 2010 has come and gone, but from
it, it was clear that this year marks the
beginning of the era of 3D
entertainment.
− CES 2010 - and the companies‟
showcase of their R&D jewels - marks
the end of Web 2.0 and the beginning of
Web 3.0. For better or for worse, the
world will never be the same again.
Saturday, February 6, 2010

8. Or is Web 3.0 maybe mobile web?
Web 3.0 and the Future of Learning:
−The use of mobile devices for learning
is correlated with market
performance and highly correlated
with effective learning. An
increasingly mobile web experience is
seen as the hallmark of Web 3.0.
− By Michael Green, T+D APRIL 05 2011 //
FEATURE, a report on the latest ASTD
research study, Better, Smarter, Faster: How
Web 3.0 Will Transform Learning in High-
Performance Organizations

9. What is next, then?
Immersive?
−The use of virtual
worlds, simulations, augme
nted reality, and
multiplayer gaming
technologies for learning
are expected to increase
dramatically in the next
few years.
− By Michael
Green, Better, Smarter, Faster :
Web 3.0 and the Future of
Learning

10. What about Web 5.0?
OnlineClock.net Launches Web 5.0
 “…what we‟re talking about with Web
5.0 is the introduction of a new
dimension in the the web equation:
everything having to do with time, and
web services which all revolve around
time and bringing time-based services to
the user, via whatever new methods
happen to be available.”
— OnlineClock.net creator and owner Tom Churm
“Web 4.0 just sounds stupid…so we decided to skip it.”
See also Online Clock Starts Web 5.0

11. Another thought
Web 5.0 : the telepathic web
 brain implants, helmets … to read/write
directly into your brain will get better and
better, smaller and smaller, cheaper and
cheaper.
 And remember: any electronical device
that can read your brain can be connected
to a wireless modem to connect you to the
internet … to connect you to anyone
or anything you like: your wife, your
facebook friends, wikipedia, your
radio- or TV station, your coffee machine…
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12. Or is 5.0 the Wise Web?
Future of The Web- Will Web 5.0 Take Control?
 Web 5.0- the Wise Web, is still in shadow play, but
it‟s definitely coming. Its signature is written large
in research labs across the planet, where everything
from human behaviour, emotions, decision-
making, network science, brain cognition and
automated learning is being funded.
 Web 5.0 will scoop up all this new knowledge and
the intelligence offered by Webs 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0 and
deliver it in an ethical, self-aware and sentient
framework, embedding all biological and artificial
life within a global cooperative intelligence.
 More info at Future Society- The Future of the Media by David Tow

13. The End? Doubtful!!!!