Welcome to Future of the Web Chapter

Nowadays, the Web is immersed in a technological and social movement named Web 2.0. This movement could be considered a first experimental approach to the Intelligent Web. That is, a Web handling not only contents and applications, but knowledge and processes.

Web 2.0 does not involve fundamental technological changes. However, user-knowledge exploitation through well-known technologies has contributed to understand both the Web in particular and systems in general in a new way. That leads to a highly user-centered approach which allows the integration of user capabilities in every phase of the system life cycle further on pure requirement contribution.

From this point, we consider a gradual introduction of a new technology set, such as semantic technologies, automatic planning and reasoning, decision support, service and process choreography, context-awareness adaptation for all kind of environments, people and devices. Moreover the introduction of new business and market models will make the Web evolve in a place where developing social relationships, business, leisure time and the whole of our daily activity, breaking the barriers which separate us from life in Web. This new Web is sometimes named Web 3.0.