Europe wants to take a leading role in Internet 3.0. (Source)

As the article explains, Internet (or better: Web) 3.0 includes "the boom in social networking, the shift to online business services, nomadic services based on GPS and mobile TV, and the growth of smart tags using RFID". Thinking of our recent surveillance systems (hello, UK!) and the subtle loss of privacy that is combined with more and more teasers for the unsuspecting public, I have to say that Europe has a pole position in that race.