Summary of Web 3.0

1.      Web 3.0 promises to make the Internet more intuitive, more useful, and more personalized. And it’s already on its way. Web 1.0, as it’s called, can be thought of as a library. It was the infancy of the web where sites essentially brought you information and you consumed it. Web 2.0 allowed the user to interact with that media. Now instead of just reading an article, you could comment on it, post a video about it, and otherwise involve yourself with the post. The Internet was now something of a social club. With Web 3.0, the stakes are promised to be bigger. Web 3.0 will allow our devices to take action and interpret information based on the users’ preferences and personality. Instead of browsing a dozen websites to figure out where to have dinner and see a movie next Friday night, on Web 3.0 you’ll be able to tell your device what you want to do and it will search the entire web to find results that are relevant to you. So, in this example, it may bring back a result in the form of a specific Mexican restaurant near your favorite movie theatre that’s playing the latest thriller (your favorite type of movie). It might even give you the time the movie is playing and how long it would take to drive from the restaurant to the movie theatre. In Web 2.0 we use the power of social networking and crowdsourcing to find and do things, but in Web 3.0 we’ll be able to use the “intelligence” of our devices and the web to personalize things to us. Will all this personalization kill our privacy? Will we have to give up our privacy to use this new technology? That is yet to be determined. A writer on Medium suggests that Web 3.0 creates the opportunity for an Internet that is more pro-privacy and less monopolized (by web giants like Facebook, Amazon, and Google) because information will be back in the hands of the users (see the article: https://medium.com/@matteozago/why-the-web-3-0-matters-and-you-should-know-about-it-a5851d63c949). It was my understanding that the author thought that Web 3.0 technologies would run separate from current technologies owned by large companies. For instance, we wouldn’t need a Google search engine. Instead we’d have some private search database that only we had access to. From there we could share our information with other companies in exchange for information – but only that information we chose to share. It’s the idea of opting in instead of opting out. How futuristic Web 3.0 gets is yet to be seen, but once need only look around to see the future is upon us. The “Internet of Things” has already provided us with smart thermostats that get to know our preferences and printers that automatically send us ink based on learned usage. Whatever challenges it brings, Web 3.0 will be exciting to discover. (Main Source: https://computer.howstuffworks.com/web-305.htm)