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You can find descriptions of the future of WebTV and Web 3.0 everywhere.

For WebTV, search the Internet for Television Everywhere. Here the focus is on what television will be like, as it merges with the Internet.

Search Web 3.0 for information about the future of the Internet, as it merges with television and other technologies.

No one will write the specs for Web 3.0. Just as Web 2.0 evolved organically, so will Web 3.0 For Web 2.0, we can look back and see that much of it converged around the year 2006. Web 3.0 will take shape some time in the next 5 years, depending on the number of bold, creative innovators.

Components anticipated for Web 3.0 include:
 * **Artificial Intelligence.** No, Web 3.0 won't do your thinking for you and try to control you. Artificial Intelligence refers to computer algorithms that greatly facilitate human interaction with computers, or that allow computers to perform certain tasks independently. Google is already using Artificial Intelligence to second-guess which pages you would like to read. Computer vision and speech recognition software is letting you find pictures online and use your voice (rather than push buttons) on the phone.
 * **The Semantic Web.** When Tim-Berners Lee first created the World Wide Web, he envisioned the web pages being "smarter" than they currently are. The favorite example is when the word "chip" appears on a page, it should be clear whether it means "computer chip", "potato chip", wood chip or some other kind of chip. Artificial Intelligence is reducing the need for this, but nevertheless, page developers should be able to embed a layer of "meaning" on top of their webpages so that intelligence software can more readily understand what the content is about. This is currently being implemented, in simple form, as tags and categories on web pages.
 * **3D Graphics and Virtual Reality.** Many websites will no longer limit you to a point-and-click interface. Shopping an online department store? You can walk through the layout of your local department store if you know where everything is in your local store. The technology is there. We're waiting for a breakthrough innovator to come along and make it ubiquitous, the way Amazon made online shopping ubiquitous, eBay made online bidding ubiquitous, and Craig's list made online classifieds ubiquitous.
 * **WebTV (TV Everywhere) and the Internet of Things.** Televisions, mobile phones, tablet computers, and microchips in everything (watches, clothing, medical devices, pollution monitors, product displays, and even the human body!) will link everything into the Internet for ease of access. QR codes and the explosion of mobile apps using the cell phone camera are precursors, as a stopgap until genuine communication is universally available. As for WebTV, you can now acquire products and services to make your TV operate like a computer or to make your computer act like a TV. In the future, the technology will merge, and peripherals (like remote controls, keyboards, tablets, cell phones, gaming devices, etc.) will determine what you can do with the device.

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