The Web 4.0. What it is and how it will transform the internet

Everything is changing. Including the Internet.

Or did you think it had always been the same? Since its origins in the 1960s, the network has grown and transformed to what it is today. But this process has not stopped, one could even say that it is accelerating. In a few years, the Internet will look very unlike today . Some relevant voices like Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Alphabet, have been announcing for years that the Internet will "disappear", but not because it will cease to exist, but because it will be so integrated into our lives and our environment that we won't even perceive it.

What do system administrators do

Where is the network evolving? In this article, we will see what will be the next step that the Internet will take in its evolution, known as web 4.0, what will be its nearest future and how it has evolved since its inception.

To access web 4.0, the Internet had to evolve over time, passing, as you can imagine, through 3 previous phases that led to significant changes in its functioning and in what it offered to users.

- Web 1.0 , which is the one that was developed in the 20th century, is the network in its most basic state. In Web 1.0, users (also known as “browsers”, a term that is no longer used) were limited to consuming static content , without having the ability to add new items on their own. So, in Web 1.0, everything is in the hands of the webmaster.

- Web 2.0 , which takes place around the first decade of this century, represents an important evolution, becoming a social phenomenon in which millions of users exchange ideas and content in forums, blogs or social networks. While Web 1.0 has gone through a relatively slow process of social adoption, Web 2.0 is breaking through with great force, reaching hundreds of millions of users around the world. With Web 2.0, the Internet is becoming a global phenomenon .

- Web 3.0 , which is the one we use today, is known as the "semantic web". It's a smarter website, which manifests itself especially in search engines that are closer to understanding human natural language. Another very significant change is in the mobility in its use. Currently, much of the Internet is used via mobile devices, and tools such as “the cloud” are diversifying their options for use. For this reason, we could also refer to Web 3.0 as “Mobile Web” or “Flexible Web”.

And what will Web 4.0 look like? A standard for Internet 4.0 has not yet been established, let alone a name, but there are clues as to where it will evolve.

We may be able to call Internet 4.0 the “Active Web”. In today's Web 3.0, the use of search engines is still essential, and they serve us information - in its main content web pages - that we use according to our needs.

So if, for example, we are looking for hotel accommodation to spend a night in Rome, we write something like “Rome hotel room” in a search engine, and the search engine gives us a list of web pages, generally from hotel search engines, which we will use "Manually".

Web 4.0 will be a radical change. When fully developed, it will eliminate many of the steps required by using Web 3.0, making its use more direct and "invisible".

In the first place, it is possible that the traditional search engines do not disappear but are integrated into virtual assistants .

These virtual assistants will be able to understand natural, spoken and written language, and we will be able to query them as we would with a human assistant. So we will say something like "book me a room in Rome for July 12th", and we will directly get a reservation in a hotel chosen according to our tastes - which the virtual assistant will know in advance - and we we will just have to confirm.

But this "simplification" or "activation" of the use we make of the network will not be the only change that web 4.0 brings us. In addition, it will be the network itself that will propose actions - we can already see this today in its primitive state through the suggestions that arrive on our mobile phones - in a contextual way.

So, if, for example, an application or your virtual assistant knows your habits and your tastes, he will book, alone and in your name, movie tickets to see the new premiere of your favorite director, you just have to confirm your acceptance. reservation.

Will it take a long time to be immersed in Web 4.0? Probably less than you expect. The technologies that will make it possible are already in development and are starting to emerge. Virtual assistants, such as Siri, Cortana or Google Now, gain a better understanding of natural language day after day thanks to machine learning systems. At the same time, “Big Data” is being processed more and more efficiently, linking all the information obtained through multiple sources.

Are you not interested in all of these changes? We do, and we hope Pandora FMS plays a part in this whole story.

Still do not know what Pandora FMS is?

Before we finish, remember that Pandora FMS is flexible monitoring software capable of monitoring devices, infrastructures, applications, services and business processes.