What's Wrong in Virtual Space 2.0?

When everyone dreams Web X.0 (Wiki, Blog, etc), we must also discuss inadequate things happening on it. We may gather much evidence that Current/Next Web promises not only pink future, but also darkness. At this post, I'll show only three things -- something wrong around our Life 2.0.

1. Lack of Specialty
Wikipedia now became the ONLY source of information. (ONLY may mean 'largest') Nobody may disagree this. It has many topics discussed and volunteer expert editors involved. What I found in it is that it has many discussions, descriptions, and links to support SOFT topics. (SOFT means general and public) Of course, some topics have less descriptions yet, but many, especially followers to conspiracy, have wills to edit such SOFT topics. But, the HARD topics (such as scientific research results, algorithms, etc) have insufficient descriptions to fulfill the subscribers of them. For this reason, in a previous post, I suggested 'Vikipedia' (Vertical + Wiki + Encyclopedia), in which every volunteer scientific researchers, for example, come and add/edit their own research results. We are not the only expert on our own area.

2. Uniformity
The second is abuse from a same information source. Many newspaper articles have already reported this -- many students copy their assignments from Wikipedia, for example,; thereby being disallowed to reference it by their teachers. Democracy, especially Web Democracy, is based on the 'beautiful DIVERSITY of thoughts. We must keep human as human. Being DIVERSE makes us unique.

3. Ignorance of 'Correct' Minority Reports
The third is also from the basic principle of democracy - rule of majority. The 'collective intelligence' or 'wisdom of crowds' are correct. BUT NOT EVERY TIME. The majority may often has incorrect ideas (possibly from a wrong UNIFORM source). We need to know the majority opinions from the crowds, but we MUST NOT ignore the minority opinions. Leave the possibility -- minority's correctness and majority's wrongness. We MUST open our eyes and ears. Being OPEN is the spirit of VS 2.0.

Let's discuss further for better VS 3.0.

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Semantic Web May Be in a Wrong Direction???

People say 'Semantic Web' will be the next Web platform, as we call Web 2.0 at present. Some of them sometimes declare Semantic Web is Web 3.0. I can't agree on it. We can imagine the next web platform, namely Web 3.0 possibly, and, after several periods of web evolutions, also the era of Semantic Web; but, the equality is not. Web 3.0 is a result of the (natural) evolution of web, as Web 2.0 was, while Semantic Web must be the result of our willingness to achieve. Here is the problem. What, if our willingness is incorrect? Even though my main research topic is Semantic Web, at this time I must criticize it before further progress. Web, both 1.0 and 2.0 and next ones, is the result of general people -- not of a few genius, even though a few persons, including Tim Berners-Lee, did great jobs to enable them. 'General' means easy, simple, ubiquitous, cheap, etc. However, Semantic Web is not easy, not simple, not yet ubiquitous, not cheap, etc. For a tiny datum, it possibly requires too much meta-data describing the datum. The meta-data is too complicatedly structured such as in RDF, DAML(S), OWL(S), etc. Who exactly knows the grammars of such ontology languages. Of course, we imagine the world interpreted by a machine, a.k.a., intelligent agent, including ontology editor and reasoner. Eventually, we will make such an intelligent agent and platform for everyone. This is 'eventually', not right now or near future. The pink-light vision of Semantic Web may blind our eyes to see and halt our brain to think. As Web 1.0/2.0 was succeeded via the participations of general people, at least mainstream companies, Semantic Web must involve such enthusiastic supports from many many many, if possible all of, people in the world. The approach must be easy and simple. We must gradually approach to come the dream true. Web 3.0 may not be Semantic Web, but I imagine Web 10.0 will be Semantic Web.