Question

What is the difference between Web 3.0 and Web 4.0

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Explanation:

WEB 3.0

The web 3.0 is also known as the “Semantic web”.

It includes several technologies in order to arrange and structure data you can find on the internet to make it available and usable by programs and software thanks to a metadata system.

The purpose is to make the web readable by machines and not only by humans.

It starts with the Resource Description Framework (RDF) which gives the specifications of such a metadata data model. It is also the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and notations like RDF Schema (RDFS).

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) are between the web 2.0 and the web 3.0. Many websites are already using this technology to display animated content. Flash animations are already taking advantage of this technology to deliver advanced animated content without the heavy weight of usual “movie files”.

Even if the definition of the web 3.0 is not achieved yet, everybody agrees on its properties. The web 3.0 will have to gather the following benefits:

 

Website or Web Solution

Mobile

Universal

Accessible

 

The core benefit is that anyone will have access to a huge amount of structured data using software. No need to dig in for hours on the web, on different websites to get valuable information. It will also provide (if well structured) to the “Deep web”. Most of the time, a Google search provides access to the “Surface web” (most common sites with a good Page Rank), but a lot of interesting information lies under the surface.

WEB 4.0

The web 4.0 is also known as the “Symbiotic Web”.

The idea being the symbiotic web is that once the metadata are organized (web 3.0), human and machines can interact in symbiosis. Meaning that we would be able to build more powerful interfaces like mind controlled interfaces for example.

But let’s be clear, the web 4.0 is still an underground idea in progress. There is no definition of it yet.

People also talk about ambient intelligence, webOS, artificial intelligence…

Not even mentioned on the world wide web consortium, I think we gonna have to wait a couple of years at least before seeing any web 3.0 and more for web 4.0. But it’s good to know that there are lots of projects going on in the web world.

 

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