If for ten mins you can hide your shame and listen to a Radio 4 piece, it informs on the new technologies the web will be heading towards in the future, called the semantic web.
It seems to revolve around a more database type structure, being able to simulataneously call upon and then report all sorts of things at the end of one search.
An example I can think of this being useful as, is when you book a holiday. Not only do you get your holiday booking confirmation, but the semantic web would bring up currency rates to purchase your currency, weather forecasts, and then also photographs from people's online holiday albums, without you having to manually input search details for these. Multi-faceted results is what I'd call it, they say 'linked open data'.
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Obviously with every up there must come some downs and I do start to think that computers could become too knowing when they are doing this all for us. They'd know where we were going on holiday and subsequently when we wouldn't be at home, they might be able to track how much we converted to Euros, see your family photographs... (they I mean as being the person/people who have access to all the search results data). Whatever next? Computers running your life for you?! They're not really that far off if we take Ironman to be the glassball view of the future. lol
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