Intrinsitivity

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Google News Blog: Perspectives about the news from people in the news

We wanted to give you a heads-up on a new, experimental feature we’ll be trying out on the Google News home page. Starting this week, we’ll be displaying reader comments on stories in Google News, but with a bit of a twist…

From what I have read about the evolution of the Web, keywords for Web 3.0 include:

• ubiquitous
• semantic
• personal
• modular
• scalable
• customizable
• stateful
• AI
• 3D
• VR
• immersive
• seamless

The list goes on. An attempt to categorize these keywords suggests the following related concepts:

• The Internet is everywhere.
• The Internet is part of your reality.
• The Internet is part of your identity.
• The Internet is aware of you.
• The Internet is alive.

In short, you will be assimilated.

Eric Schmidt Defines Web 3.0

Google CEO Eric Schmidt was recently at the Seoul Digital Forum and he was asked to define Web 3.0 by an audience member. After first joking that Web 2.0 is "a marketing term", Schmidt launched into a great definition of Web 3.0. He said that while Web 2.0 was based on Ajax, Web 3.0 will be "applications that are pieced together" – with the characteristics that the apps are relatively small, the data is in the cloud, the apps can run on any device (PC or mobile), the apps are very fast and very customizable, and are distributed virally (social networks, email, etc).

Human knowledge is based upon directed connectivity between brain areas

The contribution of our study is that by using a new method of signal analysis we succeeded in measuring the directionality of neuronal interactions. Cooperating brain areas forming a dynamic network are not just connected, but rather each area can be engaged either in receiving or sending signals or both.