New Language Coming

Tech alert: this post contains explanations of internet technology and some technobabble.

Why it’s important:
The buds of technologically-based culture and language have already emerged. The growth of this culture and language have been relatively constrained by defined protocols and the resulting disparate technology-bound human-to-information interface. Web 3.0 will move past constraints of protocols and sequential communication, and spawn an undefined mode of human communication and expression.

Remember the 90’s when people commonly misused basic internet terms? Like, “instant message me” when meaning to say “send me an email.” What about, “log on to x website” when meaning to say “go to x website?”

Don’t be that person as web 3.0 expands the common internet lexicon.

What will the internet language be in the future; what will common terms be? Nobody knows, but read on to discover what will be some of the roots of the forthcoming language. We’ll be throwing out some of the technical roots of Web 3.0 in this blog. For this post, let’s talk about “IPv6.”

IPv6 = Internet Protocol version 6. From wikipedia:

The communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. IPv6 was developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to deal with the long-anticipated problem of IPv4 address exhaustion.
Every device on the Internet must be assigned an IP address in order to communicate with other devices. With the ever-increasing number of new devices being connected to the Internet, the need arose for more addresses than IPv4 is able to accommodate. IPv6 uses a 128-bit address, allowing 2128, or approximately 3.4×10^38 addresses, or more than 7.9×10^28 times as many as IPv4, which uses 32-bit addresses.

When thinking of this phenomenon of providing humans 7.9x10^28 times as many ways to communicate as before, it’s kind of like human evolution and the elongation of the human throat and the reduction in the size of the mouth.

It allows us to effectively shape and control infinitely more types of expression, thus language(s). But understanding where Web 3.0 is taking us is not only about IPv6. There’s much more such as post-protocol and tangible interfaces; “phenotropic directories;” and “stigmergic networks.”