Who would have guessed the technology would outgrow ourselves this fast. Outgrow? It might be such a huge word to portray our current situation. But looking back at say, 15 years ago, neither of us could actually predict that our daily routines would be depending on technologies. At the age of 17, my mind was busied by making plans for the next hangout session with fellow girlfriends. And these plans are normally done a week ahead over phone calls, mind you I am referring to the landline calls or during that confusing add maths class. Now, my recently reached 19 years old sister who is “facebooking” on her laptop, would just head straight up to the parents room asking permission for a late night “teh tarik” session at the nearest mamak, there and then. Exchanging a couple of messages over the net, hanging out plans are made.
Raise your hand up high if you have never own a cell phone ever once in your entire life, know how to switch on a computer or never ever surfed the net, ever? I believe, NILL. Else, you won’t be reading this, right?
So, moving on to Web 4.0.
Web 4.0? I don’t even realize that the advancement of the web world has reached that far. The last report that I came across was still talking about Web 2.0 and how is has changes our life from the first invention of webby world. If Web 2.0 is about web applications and social networking, and Web 3.0 is said to incorporate the semantics of data interpreted by machines, how is Web 4.0 going to look like?
If you have the guts to let technologies take over your heart, mind and as a matter of fact your souls, dare enough to have a look at some of the insights and theories being put by the futurist. Brave yourselves darlings.
There is no exact definition of how Web 4.0 would be. But the idea is that it is an upgraded version of Web 3.0 (duh, of course!). Web 4.0 is said to be the next in thing for the society. Quoting Hemnath on his blogpost,
… Human mind & Machines (Binary language) can interact in Symbiosis using this Web 4.0 technology concept. In simple words, a machine can also be clever on reading the contents and animations, and react in the form of executing and deciding what to execute first to load the website fast with superior quality and performance and build more commanding interfaces.
In other word, we are letting the machines to execute our thinking before we even key in our wants and needs into the machines, and these machines put forward more than what we ought for, no?
It sounds exiting that everything is getting simpler, quicker and offers better-quality. No more mind-blowing and nerve-wrecking physical jobs involvement in executing our daily routines. Yet, it is a bit scary though knowing the fact that life won’t commence it usual routines without the help of those clever machines.
Web 4.0 is also said to have a creation of making the technology more human. It no longer presents conventional challenge, making what we have now on the current web world out-dated and old-fashioned. Contents are not just being consumed as it is by us, as it shall alter our behaviors into exploring and scrutinizing in deep before any intellect inputs, as they are putting it. Question is, are we turning the technology becoming humans, or we ourselves turning into technologies in order to adapt to its advancement?
This might be a skeptical statement of mine, but how are we capable of adapting to it really, given that our human mind shall have a dependable relationship with machines in Web 4.0, or in whole, technologies?
We no longer need to think hard, spending hours on Emerald finding relevant journals for that thesis writing. Courting the next in line love prospect would not be awkward given that Web 4.0 might just provide us with that particular person’s preferences, dislikes and every other thing that you would not have the courage to ask them in person. As for the enterprises, the current B2B, B2C, B2E and B2G networking is already trouble-free in this existing Web 2.0 edge. Pulling together Web 4.0, I wonder how much more effortless it would be.
But hey! If these advancement is making our miserable life easier, why not then?
Just make sure that we are really ready to let ourselves face the fact that those machines are way clever than us and never let their cleverness takes over our human intelligence.
Good luck to all of us with the future of Web 4.0!
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