Fig. 1. Way is will be …

• Way was
• Way is
• Way will be …

Web 1.0 Top down and traditional

Web 2.0 Democratization of information – anyone can publish

Web 3.0 The data takes over – construction and reconstructing itself to form unique and original combinations, even coming up with new ideas?

This is doodled on the back of a handout from the Web Science Doctoral Training Centre, University of Southampton where I had spent the afternoon on 6th February.

Serendipity really – the long train journey in and back and the iPad had run out of juice obliging me to do some reading. In any case, pen on paper is often the best place to express thoughts, to ‘get them out there’ in a scamp or draft form.

This is how Dion Hinchcliffe expresses it:

With a link to hundreds of his diagrams

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