Today’s technologies have provided us with many wonders that we could have not imagined years ago. And internet has become our everyday life. But when we are looking for something we need, sometimes it is really chaotic. With billions pages, even trillions pages, internet search just can’t show us all these pages, even we have all the data there. The web has become one major media to connect people and information. But looking through the ocean to find the desired fish to eat can be very hard, because the web filter will provide us a swarm of fishes. What I feel about internet today is like droping a stone in the lake, a ripple will appear. Sometime the ripple will cross the whole lake, but more ofter it will be disrupt by another ripple. Everyone is capable to input information to the web, but most of the informaion is hardly noticed by other people, only very few of them will create a ripple big enough to cross the whole lake.
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I agree with your thought. The future of web is really chaotic. It is useful for us, however I think people would not control of it. Because of Web 2.0, the Internet became interactive, and Web 3.0 will make the Internet cloud wherever people can reach the information. Then, what is the next? I can’t imagine about it. It is really chaotic.
It is not just the chaos of the web that causes information to get lost in an “ocean” of information, but the speed at which the web is moving forward that has not allowed people as a whole to master how to wield such a powerful tool. If I may keep using your ocean metaphor, It is true that finding the desired fish to eat in the ocean is hard but there are specialized people that can in fact find it, Fishermen. This knowledge they posses was not found overnight but overtime and with the help of many generations fishermen they plotted the fishes migratory patterns. This is not unlike what we face to day in searching for information on the web. We need to realize that the speed the web is moving at is not a speed which we can match. I believe that when this is realized we will gain some semblance of control over the web. As a whole we have to become fishermen in the ever changing ocean that is the web, and only working together can we plot out how to properly catch our desired information.