Web 3.0: What Does the Future Hold?

Web 3.0 is projected to deliver a new generation of business applications that will see business and social computing converge. Web 3.0 could change the manner in which people live and work as well as the organizations where they work, and it may even revolutionize social networking (see Laurent 2010; Aghaei et al. 2012).

According to several experts, Web 3.0 could have the following capabilities: Make current applications smarter by introducing new intelligent features Provide easier and faster interaction, collaboration and user engagement Facilitate intelligent-based powerful search engines

  • Provide more user-friendly application- creation and human-computer interaction capabilities

    Enable smarter machine (Gartner 2014)

    Enable much wider bandwidth

    Enable better visualization including 3-D tools

    Simplify the use of mobile computing and mobile commerce

    Increase the wisdom and creativity of people

Efraim Turban, David King, Jae Kyu Lee, Ting-Peng Liang, Deborrah C. Turban (2015), Electronic Commerce A Managerial and Social Networks Perspective