Semantic web: an internet in which machines and/or incredibly smart software agents would be better able to read and search sites than us mere mortals. Another interpretation of the semantic web would see the emergence of semantic search engines, which shift from the keyword searches we use today to a natural-language processing approach. It will be capable of answering questions such as: how many times have Juventus won the Italian football league? 3D web: the web becomes a virtual environment we can walk through, with perhaps one of the best working examples of this being the online universe Second Life. Pervasive web: the internet will be everywhere around us, not just on hand-held devices but on wearable ones too, and could even extend to the kitchen windows, which, courtesy of networks routed everywhere, could be told to open when the temperature reaches a certain level.
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