I realize that Web 2.0 seems to be the decade’s buzzword and you are probably getting tired of it; but, you have to understand that this is essentially the Internet’s second renaissance. Ideas are being created at a rate never seen before in human history, and the power of collaboration has exceeded everyone’s wildest imaginations. Though we’re supposed to have jet packs and visiting distant stars, science fiction authors never quite predicted the cultural revolution that has occurred in the last seven years.

Web X.xx (Is that better?) reinforces Sir Timothy Berners-Lee’s original purpose for the net, that it be used for collaboration and information sharing (for researchers). Of course, like everthing the real world, the internet didn’t stay confined to just that, and now I can stay updated on David Hewlett’s life minute by minute while watching a homemade video on YouTube about the dangers of smoking.
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