What makes us want to learn? Well i guess the answer can be attributed to an insatiable appetite to explore and be intrigued. The whole concept of Web 2.0 and the era of innovative technology is not only exciting but dwelling upon us as an efficient and enriched means of information delivery. I mean some 10 years ago who would of thought how the expansive nature of the web would impact modern day lifestyles...
The trend today seems to be the ability to connect! Connect me to you, and you to everyone else! Connect anything to everything!
The advent of Web 2.0, which utilizes technologies such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, RSS feeds, streaming media has made it so simple and portable for people to not only truly keep in touch or share content, but see media in a totally whole different manner. It has become a "Informatica" of infinite goodness, where everything and anything can be linked!
In this modern age where information is a becoming a vast commodity, a popular means of delivering content via television and radio is slowly becoming superseded. We are finding ourselves glued to computer screens more often, subconsciously almost, as compared to the once popular television box set. I find myself using www.smh.com.au more predominately than watching the news at 6 PM.
Being a child of Generation Y, I can relate to how young people devour information available today with a sense of "guerrillaness". That being much similar to guerrilla warfare to use the analogy. Snippets of information are processed, "smashed and grabbed" in a vicarious manner.
Currently, I think a good example of how such technologies can be synthesized and still be efficient is to view the business model of companies such as Amazon. I have used CDNOW (A component of Amazon) on countless occasions to browse and read reviews, subscribe to critics'/reviewer suggestions and sample multimedia content. Amazon's appeal seems to lie in the fact that it also acts as a simple yet comprehensive rehashed web blog with all sorts of embedded tools. It's nice to know I can rely on CDNOW so "I never do miss a beat".
Anyhow the future of the Web seems to be headed in this direction - and it's all for the good. "Faster, better, stronger".
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