Internet 2.0

There can be no doubt that the Internet has profoundly changed our work, our lives, our entertainment, and our politics. Now the Internet itself is undergoing perhaps its most radical change ever, as we are seeing what many experts have coined the development of “Web 2.0.”

With Web 2.0, there is a sea change occurring wherein the web has become a truly participatory media; instead of going on the web to read static content, we can more easily create and share our own ideas and creations. The rise of what has been alternately referred to as consumer or user-generated media (content) has been hailed as being truly groundbreaking in nature. This ability to create web content by simply typing words and pointing and clicking, without having to know anything about computer programming, has been touted by Tim Berners-Lee, the developer of the World Wide Web, as being much more in line with the original vision of what the web should be.