I think the answer to this is yes. If you can save as favourites all the current ‘cool’ sites then I don’t think you ever need go out again.
You can buy everything you need from i-Tunes, Amazon and e-bay and can get your food shopping from Tesco home deliveries. Your entertainment can come from YouTube and i-Player. Your social life can come from Facebook. Anything you want to know can be found on Wikipedia. Sign up to the latest web crazes and you’ll be well informed, trendy and have all the friends you need. Get on the message boards for real ‘conversations’. Get on X-Box Live for real entertainment. Why would you want to go out with real people!
This is a link to the social networking website facebook:
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Whether I have used Web 1 or 2 to achieve all this is pretty irrelevant. Did anyone even know Web 1 was Web 1, did anyone care!
All that matters is that the natural development of the sites enables me to do more and more - and that they are more interactive, respond faster and can be manipulated to do what I want to do or see. Like looking at a Google earth map of a place I'm thinking of visiting to see whether it’s actually worth going or to check out the route. To do a virtual tour of a hotel that I want to stay in, rather than just look at a brochure. A 360 degree look at this stuff in real time would be better still - will this require Web 3?
This is a link to a YouTube video made by Michael Wesch which looks into ways we use Web2.0 and the way the web uses us. Wesch calls this video The machine is Us/ing Us
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