The evolution of the internet from Web 1.0 — “Hey, have you heard about this email thing?” … to Web 3.0 — “Hey, my toaster just messaged my watch that breakfast is ready.” is really a story of how a network of static information portals became an interactive, semantic network of user generated data — and, ipso facto, a hot mess of dissimulation and machination.
Under the “big data” in our “Internet of Things” — as Web 3.0 is sometimes called — it’s increasingly difficult to discern what’s real from what’s a simulation. One reason for this is the sheer volume of machine-generated data.