Web 2.0 | Blog | O'Reilly Radar. Al Gore Joins Web 2.0 Summit Lineup - O'Reilly Radar. As I wrote last month in What Good is Collective Intelligence if it Doesn’t Make Us Smarter? , at this year’s Web 2.0 Summit, we’re focusing on how what we’ve learned from the web over the past decade can be applied to solve the world’s hard problems. That’s why I’m really excited to see that John Battelle has persuaded Al Gore to join us. One of those hard problems that requires all the intelligence we can throw at is global warming. And there’s no one who deserves as much credit as Al Gore for getting it on our collective radar. That’s Gore’s continuing focus, with his role at Current TV. When I first saw Gore talk about climate change at the TED conference in early 2006, everyone wanted to know what we could do about it. Of course, global warming is far from the only “web meets world” theme that we’re exploring.
Tim.oreilly.com -- Various Thing I've Written: Tim O'Reilly's Archive. I have trouble keeping track of my various, scattered writings and interviews, so I decided to create a page where I can find my own words when I want to refer to them. I figured others might want to look at this archive as well. In addition, here is my official bio and my short official bio. The Alignment Problem Is Not New: Lessons for AI Governance from Corporate Governance (O'Reilly Radar, June 15, 2023) "Corporations are nominally under human control, with human executives and governing boards responsible for strategic direction and decision-making. Humans are "in the loop," and generally speaking, they make efforts to restrain the machine, but as the examples above show, they often fail, with disastrous results.
The first step to proper AI regulation is to make companies fully disclose the risks (The Evening Standard, June 15, 2023) You Can't Regulate What You Don't Understand (O'Reilly Radar, April 14, 2023) Why It's Too Early To Get Excited About Web3 (O'Reilly, December 13, 2021) O'Reilly -- What Is Web 2.0. By Tim O'Reilly 09/30/2005 Oct. 2009: Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle answer the question of "What's next for Web 2.0?
" in Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On. The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. Many people concluded that the web was overhyped, when in fact bubbles and consequent shakeouts appear to be a common feature of all technological revolutions. Shakeouts typically mark the point at which an ascendant technology is ready to take its place at center stage. The pretenders are given the bum's rush, the real success stories show their strength, and there begins to be an understanding of what separates one from the other. The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. In the year and a half since, the term "Web 2.0" has clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in Google.
This article is an attempt to clarify just what we mean by Web 2.0. 1.