The 'Web Squared' Era - Forbes.com - 0 views
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shared by Ed Webb on 25 Sep 09
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Web 2.0, the name we gave this phenomenon in 2004 when we named our new conference, turns five on Oct. 5
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collective intelligence applications are increasingly driven by cascades of sensor data being thrown off by devices, often without explicit human intervention. Today’s smartphones contain microphones and cameras, as well as motion, proximity, location, and direction sensors. They have their own eyes, ears, and sense of touch. Revolutionary new applications connect those senses to cloud databases and programs running on massive server farms.
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Where the Web Squared world gets really interesting, though, is when applications use all the senses of a device, coordinating them much like the human brain coordinates our senses, to draw conclusions that would be difficult with one sense alone.
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our world will have "information shadows." Augmented reality amounts to information shadows made visible.