This document provides an overview of emerging digital technologies including 3D spaces, multitouch screens, crowdsourcing, and the concepts behind Web 3.0. It describes Web 3.0 as being powered by open technologies, semantic data, and distributed databases to create an intelligent web. An example is given of how a veterinarian could use social and recommendation systems across multiple applications and devices to learn, share information, and manage goals more effectively. Artificial intelligence is also discussed as powering an intelligent web through collecting data, reasoning, and taking appropriate actions.

1. “A whistle-stop tour of digital technology”16thOctober 2008

2. Web 3D

3. 3D Spaces : Home

4. 3D Spaces : Wonderland

5. Immersivemedia.com

6. Yammer.com

7. Crowdsourcing : Google Image Labeler

8. Multitouch ‘screens’

9. HP Touchsmart

10. Cooliris

11. Fingertapps.com

12. Still highly speculative but starting to take shape Web 3.0

13. Web 3.0 : What ? Intelligent Web Semantic Web Data-mining Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=T0QJmmdw3b0

15. Web 3.0 : When ? Third decade of the Web (2010-2020)

16. Web 3.0 : How ? Open technologies : API vs UI Semantic Web : RDF (like RSS) Open identity : OpenID Distributed databases

17. Open University : SocialLearn

18. SocialLearn : Scenario Character: Ellen is a professional vet, living in Wales. She is married, with a four year old son and is a fan of 60s sci-fi movies and is a keen skier. Scenario: Ellen is called out to look at a sick Pot Bellied Pig. She is unsure of the symptoms, but thinks she has a diagnosis. She uses her mobile device to put out a call for help on her learner network. This is built on top of Twitter and allows her to filter tweets to groups, e.g. ‘vets’, ‘parents’, ‘friends’, etc. Dan, from Sussex is an expert in Pot Bellied pigs and confirms her diagnosis, sending her a link to a resource. She saves this to her study list in her learner profile, with the tags ‘vet’, ‘pigs’ it is automatically added to her To Do list in Remember the Milk, so she will study it later.

19. Part 2 Her current goals/interests are “ To learn snowboarding”, “60s Sci-Fi movies”, “Blue Tongue virus”, “Teaching children French” “Harry Potter novels”. Content related to each of these is found using data-mining, and social recommendations, building on 43Things. Recommended resources are then attached to each goal, with a score, and a category, e.g. ‘video’, ‘book’, ‘person’, ‘course’, etc

20. Twine.comFacebook + Wikipedia = Web 3.0

21. Ubiquity

22. multitouch-this.com Slide 22 Date to go here

23. Artificial Intelligence Web 3.0 Intelligent Web

24. AI : Physical Example Activity Zones for Context-Aware Computing

25. AI: How ? Collect Reason Act Slide 25 Date to go here

26. ArtificialintelligenceMarketing.com Slide 26 Date to go here

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