Towards web 3.0?

From the reports of the Westminster eForum on Web 2.0 the debate may essentially boil down to the question of if ISP’s or infrastructure providers can charge content providers to deliver their content as well as charging users to receive it.

Yet current concerns of the required rate of bandwidth to service future needs especially the growth of video, appears to make little account of the ability of the industry to innovate or to add capacity at utility cost to meet demand.

Companies like AT&T need to keep data flowing over the network but signalling that the internet may be at full capacity by 2010 seems an odd way to do it, unless another major industry is planning on receiving or requesting a major government investment/bailout. Government investment normally comes at regulatory costs that is often difficult to bear and that could stymie innovation that is not what s required for the future.

See http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1035_22-6237715.html