I just read an interesting article about web 3.0. There are a number of really interesting points that it uncovers and points out. Reading this article made me realize how valuable meta data is when you look at the value of information across a broad group of people.

Reading the article also made me wonder what it will be like when the pace of information growth slows from the pace of growth we are so use to today.

It's worth a read.

"Even today with the current generation of Web-based tools available to us, we are still not able to effectively tap much more of the potential Collective IQ of our groups, teams and communities. How do we get from where we are today (the whole is dumber than the sum of its parts) to where we want to be
in the future (the whole is smarter than the sum of its parts)?"

In the last 20 years the amount of information that knowledge workers (and even consumers) have to deal with on a daily basis has mushroomed by a factor of almost 10 orders of magnitude and it will continue like this for several more decades. But our information tools -- and particular our tools for communication, collaboration, community, commerce and knowledge management -- have not advanced nearly as quickly. As a result the tools that we are using today to manage our information and interactions are grossly inadequate for the task at hand: They were simply not designed to
handle the tremendous volumes of distributed information, and the rate of  change of information, that we are witnessing today.

Side note is this little company to watch... http://www.radarnetworks.com/