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Future shock
Wikipedia is one of those companies most closely identified with web 2.0, the phenomenon nicely identified by one speaker in a session on the subject as “taking advantage of smart people somewhere whose names you don’t know and who you don’t have to pay to do it.”
But the online encyclopaedia is less eager than the Davos panellists to discuss what will comes after the second flowering of the internet. John Markoff, Stanford lecturer and New York Times columnist pointed out that the term “web3.0” has been banned in perpetuity by the Wikipedia community.
Sure enough, a check reveals that the Wikipedia page on the subject has been “deleted, and protected to prevent re-creation.” In other words, we’ve seen the future but won’t let you. Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson