Today, the Internet -- tomorrow, the Internet of Things?

Is Web 3.0 just hype, or are people actually working with these technologies? Do people even understand what Web 3.0 is? That is what we endeavored to find out when in June 2011, we did a survey of about 200 people to see if they understood and were applying Web 3.0. Some of the answers we got back were expected, but we also did get some surprises.

This is part II of our coverage of Singularity Summit 2011, focusing on the topics of artificial intelligence and the brain.After reading this article, don't forget to read Part I Longevity And Health, and Part III Singularity And The Future.  Also, you can see all three parts rolled into one story if you prefer.

I've spent the week trying to get my head around what Web 3.0 really is. It's surprisingly difficult. Even though there has been so much written about it, and so much of the tech press has been talking about it for quite some time now. The hottest buzzword going around the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco wasn't the latest, greatest new social platform. It was Web 3.0.

While still very early in its evolution and application, Siri is collecting a monster database of human behavior. Siri goes beyond "need" to "intent" - not what somebody wants, but why. Call it technographic, call it behavioral or call it semantic - whatever the term, Apple, not Google or Microsoft, may be ushering in the era of Web 3.0 and language-based search (and with it, capturing the ad dollars that will surely follow.)

Nouveaux enjeux, nouveaux défis, nouveaux risques, nouvelles craintes… L'Internet de demain, dont la recherche trace dès aujourd'hui les contours, est au cœur de nombreux débats concernant notamment la protection de la vie privée.