How will the Internet look and evolve in another five years’ time? According to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the fellow credited with inventing the phenomenon of world wide web, it’ll be rather different to the cyberspace as we know, see and surf today.

He envisages an Internet wherein all data, applications and information are seamlessly linked & interwoven. According to him, everything will work almost with everything else and that will, in effect, let us to live our lives almost in entirety - online.

Technology experts term this the ‘semantic web’. At present, search engines like Google and Yahoo place more emphasis on the links & connections between web sites, rather than on analysing the specific piece of information within them.

The semantic web, by contrast, will rather focus on the exact meaning of data on a page. Computers will thus ‘understand’ the context of information comprised and will identify, appreciate the complex links existing between people, places & data, collating it all for delivering richer, more meaningful search results, leading to a better, improved online experience.