Web 2.0 could be described linguistically as "active voice" (as opposite to the passive one) and "first person plural" (instead of singular). Media psychology would label the same concepts as "perceived self-efficacy" and "group awareness". Internets are already full of user generated content and all kinds of social relationships; when we don't post, we vote or comment. The shared information is not always high quality and by no means original, but wait, that's just the beginning. The post-chaos web would become more hierarchical and structured: highly complex expert knowledge in all possible areas, quickly available in stylish, easily digestible demo versions, plus another go on VR. Under the assumption of the noosphere's dialectical evolution, it would be interesting to imagine Web 3.0 as a synthese of the previous versions: elitist and democratically distributed at the same time. After all, "I" is a subset of "we".

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