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 * __What Could Web 3.0 Be?__**

Web 3.0 is a collaborative movement by the W3C to promote universal formats for data on the internet. One objective this movement expects to fulfil includes structuring the web in such a way that data can be shared across all types of "application, enterprise, and community boundaries" (W3C, 2011). The structuring and creation of information will be done by machines, which suggests that something beyond simple artificial intelligence will exist by then, or, at the very least the information available will be so well-organized semantically that the machines will be able to understand it on the same level that a human would. This is why Web 3.0 also is coined as "the semantic web".

Some futurists such as John Smart believe that Web 3.0 will bring in the convergence of the virtual and physical world, resulting in interesting technology concepts like augmented reality and the evolution of social media into a 3D space (Smart, 2010). Should Web 3.0 achieve the results John Smart hopes for, it will be a great leap forward in the direction of technological singularity, which would be when machines become sentient and their intelligence surpasses that of human intelligence. Such an achievement would result in the capability of the machine to build upon itself without the aid of humans and thus reaching a super-intelligent state (think Skynet from the Terminator movie series, just less evil...hopefully).

Sources: "W3C Semantic Web Activity." World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Ed. Sandro Hawke, Ivan Herman, and Eric Prud'hommeaux. W3C, 2011. Web. 13 Jan. 2012. .

Smart, John M. "How The Television Will Be Revolutionized, John Smart 2010." ASF (Acceleration Studies Foundation). Acceleration Studies Foundation, Dec. 2010. Web. 13 Jan. 2012. .