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Chapter 15
Beyond Web 2.0
e computer industry is driven by the furious pace of technological innovation. It is not
surprising then that not long aer Tim O’Reilly started to promote the idea of Web 2.0,
people began to wonder what ‘Web 3.0’ might look like. Indeed, within a few months of the
rst Web 2.0 conference in 2004, trade magazines were beginning to speculate on the next
version of the Web (see, for example, ZDNet
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and Dan Gilmour in the Financial Times
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Others, however, were not so sure that these speculations were valid.
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As time passed a consensus seemed to emerge that ‘Web 3.0’ was the Semantic Web,
Tim Berners-Lee’s vision for ...