Web 4.0? (And The Onion Gets It Right As Usual)

This story about Web 4.0 (I don't know about you but I'm still trying to get my head around Web 2.0!) reminded me of a hilariously prescient Onion article titled “Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades!” 

Here's the TechCrunch reference to Web 4.0 that got the linked author all lathered up (there, I tied the two themes together!)  For those keeping score:
Web 1.0 – The Information Web
Web 2.0 – The Social Web
Web 3.0 – The Semantic Web
Web 4.0 – The Intelligent Web (in ~20 years according to the poster linked above)

And while I'm at it, I think I've already figured out Web 5.0:



(MetaFilter has a thread on five blades but nothing on Web 4.0 yet as far as I could tell.)

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