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The future of Web 2.0

The new generation of Internet sites, known as Web 2.0, has abolished the boundaries between consumers and producers of contents, obliging traditional media to put itself into question. Can the culture of sharing and gratuitousness give birth to a new economy ? Will collaborative networks provide room for a new form of civil commitment ?

The Observer - Gran Bretaña

The journalist Will Hutton includes Web 2.0 in his list of five ideas that he believes have moved humanity forward in 2006. "A new architecture is emerging, which allows people to connect with each other in revolutionary ways. Hence blogging or YouTube, where users post and exchange videos they have taken themselves. The mushrooming of participative and enabling sites such as MySpace, Wikipedia, Skype, Flickr, Facebook, Second Life and so on are all part of the same trend.This is but the precursor of Web 3.0, when the architecture will become yet more sophisticated. Search engines will no longer list data; they will answer your questions. Web 3.0 will mean that the web becomes a permanent part of our consciousness, conversation and cognition. Ultimately, a chip in our brain will connect us in real time to the entire web, adding immeasurably to the power of memory." (24/12/2006)

La Tribune - Francia

"Everybody is an author: this is how the spirit of this new web community, this new era known as Web 2.0 is being summed up", notes the journalist Nicolas Arpagian, pondering the emergence of a new economic model. "After the slogan 'Everybody is a journalist', popularised by the arrival of blogs, are we going to see the generalisation of a new social category: part-time creators ? They will have a paid job to ensure their life style and at the same time they will be the manufacturers of contents. ... It is perhaps from this Web 2.0 that the intellectual ebullition will come, ever so sought-after by modern economies. ... Imagination, reactivity and endurance - necessary qualities for all authors on the web - can be nothing but beneficial in economic life. And thus this free creativity is being called upon to become a productive source of richness in its own right." (27/12/2006)

Die Welt - Alemania

Dirk Nolde points out that since the beginning of 2006, companies have been making billions out of Web 2.0. "But in actual fact there are many who have not yet caught up with the information age, even in the year 2006, and even in America... And of those who are online, only a few are actively participating. They could. That's what Web 2.0 is there for. But they don't. ... On average only one in every 100 users registered with Yahoo Groups makes use of the service allowing users to set up their own debate club. The rest just read what the others write... From a financial point of view it doesn't make much of a difference. Those who just look count just as much as those who create because most of the money Web 2.0 generates is through advertising. The profit depends on how often a certain page is called up, or in other words, on how many people see the advertisement. ... The amount of money that can be made this way here and now is impressive. A video constantly runs on the YouTube startup page – a paid advertisement. YouTube sells the advertising space in the upper right corner for 175,000 dollars per day." (27/12/2006)

Der Standard - Austria

According to columnist Peter Filzmaier, the Internet, which is supposedly accessible to all, is not doing much for democracy or politics. He points out that the vision of "online forums as neo-Agora" has turned out to be an illusion, and explains why. "The traditional parties are using massive web campaigns and providing false information given under false identities to manipulate social movements... There is a modern class society consisting of a majority of internet consumers who are mostly 'unqualified' and a minority of highly competent users. Only the latter can use the Internet consistently for political education, political activities and political participation. The rest just gets bread and games." (27/12/2006)

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