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Web 2.0, Travel 2.0, Everything 2.0, But Why? |
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It started with Web 2.0, a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004, and refers to a perceived second generation of web-based services—such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies—that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users. (Wikipedia )
Today many things are affected by this second generation of the web and because of that many industries are emphasizing that their processes and business models have also completely changed, by adding the same 2.0. The numbering scheme is alluding to the version-numbers that commonly designate software, but the relationship to new versions of software does not do it justice because new software is frequently just a new evolved version of the previous. This 2.0 term signifies a revolution where the public has taken control.
Last year this became abundantly clear, and as a result Time magazine named it’s person of the year YOU. While the term perhaps has been used too much, and incorrectly, it is important to note that our world has truly changed. It’s now flat and connected and this will have an astounding effect on everything.
While the internet has been around for a while we are just starting to see its effects. The economic historian Paul A. David explained such a lag by pointing to a historical precedent in his essay; “ The Dynamo and the Computer: An Historical Perspective on the Modern Productivity Paradox”. He noted that while the light-bulb was invented in 1879, it took several decades for electrification to kick in and have a big economic and productivity impact. HP’s former CEO Carly Fiorina in 2004 also noted, shortly after the dot-com bust, that the last 25 years in technology had just been the “warm-up act”. The main event she noted “will be an era in which technology will literally transform every aspect of business, every aspect of life and every aspect of society.” Now the real (2.0) revolution has started as all the tools to collaborate and connect have been distributed, and as all the complementarities between these tools start to really work together. (the World is Flat – Thomas Friedman )
Click the “Read more…” link below for more references to Web2.0 and Travel2.0.
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