Web 3.0: What Will the Internet's New Era Bring Us?
We're living in the age of Web 3.0, they say… But isn't there just one web, one internet? In fact, the global network has already gone through two massive transformations that we never stopped to think about while we were caught in their whirlpools. And now, researchers say, a third is coming, bringing yet another sweeping change…
02Ward Cunningham, Warden of the Free Internet
“The best way to get the right answer is not to ask a question. It is far more effective to post the wrong answer.” And everyone will rush to correct you, to jump into the argument, right? That is Cunningham’s Law, a fascinating rule about how online communication has changed us. But who is this Cunningham? One of the pioneers of the democratic internet, he paved the way for Wikipedia and for online opinion-sharing systems, co-wrote the Agile Manifesto, and gave us concepts such as technical debt and extreme programming.
03The Fake News Hunter
It is called Tanbih, it comes from Qatar, and it promises to rescue us elegantly from fake news and disinformation. We meet its creator, Dr. Preslav Nakov, a world-class specialist in natural language processing with artificial intelligence. How can an algorithm tell that a news story is fake… before it has even been written?!
