Fad 3.0

Ok, so we're all agreed that web 2.0 is all a big fad then. However web 3.0 is the real deal and we're all gonna be millionaires. Where do I buy shares? According to the NY Times 3.0 is all about being guided to your desired information by smart super computing. Couldn't we rather just get some unemployed people and give them a notebook, a pencil and a living wage?

"Referred to as Web 3.0, the effort is in its infancy, and the very idea has given rise to skeptics who have called it an unobtainable vision. But the underlying technologies are rapidly gaining adherents, at big companies like I.B.M. and Google as well as small ones. Their projects often center on simple, practical uses, from producing vacation recommendations to predicting the next hit song.
But in the future, more powerful systems could act as personal advisers in areas as diverse as financial planning, with an intelligent system mapping out a retirement plan for a couple, for instance, or educational consulting, with the Web helping a high school student identify the right college.
The projects aimed at creating Web 3.0 all take advantage of increasingly powerful computers that can quickly and completely scour the Web." (via NYTimes)