What the development of social networks predicts

According to foreign media reports, recently, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman said, "The Web 1.0 era is about search, data acquisition and some limited interactive activities, while the Web 2.0 era of real identity and real relationships, then in the Web 3.0 era, These real identities will generate a lot of data. ”

Reid is a man of vision, and his speech is not unreasonable. But the amount of information that Reid describes is just the tip of the iceberg. The amount of data we collect today is more than thousands of thousand. And it's also growing exponentially, and the space for innovation is huge, even beyond the expected estimates of Silicon Valley.

For more than hundreds of years, people have been focusing on a variety of data, such as weather conditions, demographics, merchant and government trading activities. Farmers pay attention to weather conditions to learn when to plant; we look at the phone book to find someone. In the Web 1.0 era, this information can be obtained by searching worldwide.

In the Web 2.0 era, more data was available, including news messages that web users read, shopping malls, browsing sites, listening to music, movies that were seen, and places to travel. and began to collect some information about the user's age, health status, education level and socioeconomic status.

With the advent of social media tools such as LinkedIn, Myspace, Facebook and Twitter, the internet has become increasingly social, with information about the user's work experience, social and business connections, preferences for various food and entertainment activities, and sexual orientation. This is what Reid Hoffman called the Web 3.0 era.

In addition, WEB 3.0 involves a lot of other content, not just social.

In 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama unveiled an ambitious health-care reform program to standardize and electronically track the health of U.S. citizens. The goal is to digitize paper medical records across the United States so that American citizens can access these medical records over the Internet. As a result, the emergency room can obtain a patient's medical records at any time, the public can also search for the efficacy of drugs, while the general practitioner and experts can work together to complete the treatment.

At the same time, the U.S. government has opened a large number of information datasets on its data portal data.gov. The site now has 400,000 datasets and is constantly adding new data every week. These data include the performance of regional governments, the status of the rich and poor, the level of education, federal spending, traffic conditions, etc. For example, it is possible to develop applications that compare the performance of schools and medical centers in various regions to motivate them to be more effective. In addition, the Government's expenditure can be analyzed to remind the Government of its responsibilities and obligations.

A 24-hour video is uploaded to YouTube every minute, and more videos are being filmed around the world, including surveillance cameras everywhere. Whether you realize it or not, your mobile phone can record every activity and anywhere you go, move speed, or even wake up time. Many different mobile applications are starting to record this data.

And the human genome map. 10 years ago, the sequencing of the genome had to cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Now, the cost is greatly reduced, from the previous millions of dollars per person to the 2011 10,000 U.S. dollars per person. There will be more than 1 million people planning to genome sequencing in 2013. Soon, people may even be able to purchase a mobile application for genome sequencing, which could cost just 100 dollars or completely free.

By consolidating these captured datasets, imagine what will happen next: pairing your DNA with others, understanding the health of others, and treating different people for the best results, understanding the talents, allergies, and evils of others; Maybe find your own DNA soul mate. We are entering a new era of data dynamics in which the public contributes and shares information, and is based on genetics for medical care.

The United States may be at the forefront of information gathering, but now India is on an ambitious project. The Indian government is collecting demographic data, fingerprints and eye-iris scans from 1.2 billion people. This will become the largest and most complex identity database in the world.

In addition to bringing us a lot of benefits, there may be some security risks and privacy issues. Now, Google has collected a lot of data, so much so that the government is very jealous. After all, Google can read its email before users, know what friends they have and chat with them privately, keep the user's diary and calendar, and even watch the user's browsing habits to guess what the user thinks. Imagine what it would be like if our DNA information was known to Google.

Regardless of the risk and security risks, technology will continue to progress.

Nowadays people can get knowledge and information from the Internet at any time, which is difficult and unimaginable in the past, so this era is called the Information Age. However, there should be far more than that, and we are entering a new era-the information age.

In previous technological changes, many companies were born, such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Google, and Facebook. And these giants are now technically at a standstill. At the same time, there will be some ambitious startups to change the world. Perhaps the next Facebook and Google will soon be on the horizon.