23/12/2021
Web 3 vs web 2 and web 1 :
Saw that post about Elon saying web 3.0 is strapping a screen to your nose.
In my opinion Web 3.0 isn't about VR or 3d world's exclusively. It's about ownership.
Web 1.0 provided a connected set of documents people could read from. Writing your own content in the 90s and early 2000s wasn't easy. And so we say Web 1.0 was mainly a read only system.
Web 2.0 around the early 2010s introduced alot more way to create content. With the birth of social media, web apps and the accessibility of smart phones, the internet became a read/write system where everyone could participate.
However only the most technical or the most powerful really owned the content being created. People would put out videos on YouTube all the time but in reality YouTube monitizes that video and MIGHT give some to the creator. As soon as they upload it they've lost many forms of ownership.
Web 3.0 seeks to decentalize the many systems that are currently controlled by big corporations and allow computers all across the globe to connect in such a way where we serve ourselves the data instead of always relying on servers run by big companies.
Ownership on the Blockchain means digital asset ownership can be validated against a community. Never before have we had a unified system to verify digital ownership. So that video or picture you made, sure someone can copy or download it, but there's proof that you made it. If someone tried to copy it and say it's theirs, there's proof verified by multiple sources that what they are saying is incorrect. Before this technology, disputes like this that were completely digital were much harder to prove.
People can argue whether someone buying NFT art makes sense, proving that you bought something in a digital space though is a valuable thing. And even more important than proving ownership is proving authentic authorship.
Owning digital assets is literally the thing that makes Web 3.0 the revolution it is. It's not specifically about crypto or Blockchain, however it IS that technology that enables this sort of proof.
Take your data for instance: right now if you order an Uber ride, when you get in that car, the Uber app instructs the driver where to go. All along the way it's tracking you, how long it takes you, where you're going, etc.
This is all data that's then sold which makes Uber even more money.
But that data is yours. And right now the TOS states it's completely fine to take that data and sell it even though we paid for the ride.
So we're paying twice. Giving out data away for free. Remember data is the most valuable commodity dollar for dollar in the world today.
So imagine a ride share app that every time you schedule a ride it mints an NFT that holds all the data tracked during that ride.
Then companies who want to purchase this data can setup websites or even data exchange markets where people can go and sell their data NFTs in bulk at a going market rate.
Web 3.0 isn't about strapping a screen to your nose. Yes there will be ways to access the internet and what will become the metaverse through VR. But that's not the focus of this internet revolution.
Web 3.0 is about ownership
Read - write - own
What are your thoughts on Web 3.0?
Reposted from internet.
