Web 3.0 — the Semantic Web — is what folks are calling the third major wave of the Web. Interestingly, the principal inventor of the Web\ itself, Tim Berners-Lee, doesn’t much favor the idea of versioning the Web, and he views the Semantic Web as more aligned with his original vision anyway — which means that we’re actually just now seeing the evolution of a Web he was thinking about almost 20 years ago. Nova Spivak, an entrepreneur and Web visionary, has a compelling chart, similar to the one shown in Figure 1-1, that he uses to describe the Web 3.0 phenomenon.
