{"id":12225,"date":"2026-08-26T08:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=12225"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T15:35:11","slug":"the-personal-web-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2026\/08\/26\/the-personal-web-9\/","title":{"rendered":"The Personal Web"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"975\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Personal-Web-2-1024x975.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-331\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.0502564102564103;width:1024px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Personal-Web-2-1024x975.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Personal-Web-2-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Personal-Web-2-768x731.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/files\/2020\/05\/Personal-Web-2.jpg 1129w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Discussion:<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;The original web&nbsp;was about information. &nbsp;Web 2.0 was about making it social. &nbsp;The next huge transformation of the web, enabled almost entirely by the intimacy and&nbsp;ever-presence of mobile devices and AI-agents, may be toward personalization \u2013 the&nbsp;<strong>Personal Web<\/strong>. Everybody talks about \u201cbig data\u201d, but its most powerful potential will be to focus the broadest capacity of the Internet down to serving individual needs, hopes and&nbsp;dreams. Many pundits predict that very soon humans won\u2019t even look for direct connections to the Internet \u2013 that each of us will have squadrons of AI-agents surfing, harvesting, creating and acting there for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>523 Inspiration:<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;The massive personalization potentials of the<strong>&nbsp;Personal Web<\/strong>&nbsp;will be realized with mobile devices acting as mediators between the Internet, social networks, a personal cloud, communications systems, and the affordances of the everyday world. It will be the first universal engine for learner-centred education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discussion:&nbsp;&nbsp;The original web&nbsp;was about information. &nbsp;Web 2.0 was about making it social. &nbsp;The next huge transformation of the web, enabled almost entirely by the intimacy&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2026\/08\/26\/the-personal-web-9\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Personal Web<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-w01-frontiers-poll","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12227,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12225\/revisions\/12227"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}