How did my grandparents communicate? How could Web 3.0 change my life? How would being a ‘digital native’ affect my answer to this question?

How did my grandparents communicate?
The capabilities of grandparent’s communication vary depending where and when they lived at that time. My grandparents lived in Taiwan in the 1960s where communication was not fully modernized to the whole society. Depending on how wealthy a family can be, they would have better access to phones. However, no matter how wealthy a family could be internet was clearly out of the picture due to the drawback in technology at that time. My grandparents lived in a village rather than an urban area and communication within was quite flexible. Everyone in the village knew each other well and communication to one another was merely in walking distance. Talking in person to one another was how my grandparents communicated since it was free and convenient. Contacting one another was extremely local during their daily lives and using a phone to communicate to a person within a village was unnecessary, expensive and unavailable. On rare occasions, my grandparents would actually use a phone to maybe contact family far away. However, contacting family far away was quite expensive using the phone and mail was the primary use of communication on that kind of circumstance. When referring to mail, I emphasize on writing one’s own mail rather than today’s online and fast email.

How could Web 3.0 change my life?
Web 3.0 is supposedly an innovation of Web 2.0 and is a giant leap in between. This new innovation offers Semantic Web and personalization. If you wanted to conduct research in Web 2.0, the web would help your research by focusing around the syntax of your topic which is the actual wording and grammar. This can be very time consuming if you compared it to Web 3.0 which instead helps you according to both syntax and semantics (meaning). I usually tend to make mistake once in awhile and may misspell the word of my topic of research. In a Web 2.0, it will probably leave me 0 findings on my topic unless I spell it correctly. However, in a Web 3.0 it will offer a list of words I may have intended to spell or words close enough. This will offer a broader list of findings since Web 3.0 can look into my previous browsing history and make inferences about what sites and information I may be looking for. With personalization research has been faster and quicker than before. If you have a YouTube account, it will display recommended videos for you upon your login. These videos are derived based on the history of videos previously watched and can be very convenient on the user’s interest. Web 3.0 is starting to surface on our daily lives and for a start You tube is a very common site used world wide. Lastly, search engines now offer terms most popular to the public as you type in the topic you desire to search which can be very convenient and faster for most people.

How would being a ‘digital native’ affect my answer to this question?
Young people these days are clearly digital natives since they have lived with the web and communication technology as they grow up. The Web has become part of today’s young people’s daily lives and is used for their career as well as for recreation. Old people on the other hand had just encountered such new communication technology and may be slow in adapting it compared to younger people. For the digital natives, the change from the web 2.0 to 3.0 can be very effective and life changing since they constantly use the web. Being digital natives will let them see the improvement better since they’re more likely to use the web to a higher potential and extract higher benefits. Non-digital natives tend to consist of old people since most never had such communication technology in their younger days. Quite often today, youngsters teach older people how to utilize the web. Non-digital natives will more likely fail to see the augmentation from the Web 2.0 since they probably don’t use the web as often. Due to the lack of Web usage, non-digital natives will fail to see the effectiveness of personalization and Semantics. To them, Web 3.0 will not change their lives that much if they do not use the Web often.