Something New

Imagine a new type of internet that not only accurately interprets what you input, but actually
understands everything you convey, whether through text, voice or other media, one where all content
you consume is more tailored to you than ever before. We are at the tipping point of a new phase in the
web’s evolution. Some early pioneers call it Web 3.0.

Arguably, there are a few early-stage Web 3.0 applications that already exist today, but until the new
internet becomes fully embedded in the web infrastructure, their true potential cannot be observed.

But what exactly is Web 3.0, what will it look like and how will it change our lives?

Definition: What Is Web 3.0?

Tap to Flip

Web 3.0 is the upcoming third generation of the internet where websites and apps will be able to
process information in a smart human-like way through technologies like machine learning (ML), Big
Data

Web 3.0 was originally called the Semantic Web by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, and was
aimed at being a more autonomous, intelligent, and open internet.

The Web 3.0 definition can be expanded as follows: data will be interconnected in a decentralized way,
which would be a huge leap forward to our current generation of the internet (Web 2.0), where data is
mostly stored in centralized repositories.
Furthermore, users and machines will be able to interact with data. But for this to happen, programs
need to understand information both conceptually and contextually. With this in mind, the two
cornerstones of Web 3.0 are semantic web and artificial intelligence (AI).

Web 3.0, Cryptocurrency and Blockchain

As Web 3.0 networks will operate through decentralized protocols — the founding blocks of blockchain
and cryptocurrency technology — we can expect to see a strong convergence and symbiotic relationship
between these three technologies and other fields. They will be interoperable, seamlessly integrated,
automated through smart contracts and used to power anything from micro transactions in Africa,
censorship-resistant P2P data file storage and sharing with applications like Filecoin, to completely
changing every company conduct and operate their business. The current slew of DeFi protocols are just
the tip of the iceberg.

Web 3.0 Technologies

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There are a few details that we need to keep in mind when looking into Web 3.0 tech. First of all, the
concept isn’t new. Jeffrey Zeldman, one of the early developers of Web 1.0 and 2.0 applications, had
written a blog post putting his support behind Web 3.0 back in 2006. But talks around this topic had
begun as early as 2001.

Evolution of the Web 3.0 Technologies

Web 3.0 will be born out of a natural evolution of older-generation web tools combined with cutting-
edge technologies like AI and blockchain, as well the interconnection between users and increasing
internet usage. Apparently, Internet 3.0 is an upgrade to its precursors: web 1.0 and 2.0.

Web 1.0 (1989-2005)

Web 1.0, also called the Static Web, was the first and most reliable internet in the 1990s despite only
offering access to limited information with little to no user interaction. Back in the day, creating user
pages or even commenting on articles weren’t a thing.

Web 1.0 didn't have algorithms to sift internet pages, which made it extremely hard for users to find
relevant information. Simply put, it was like a one-way highway with a narrow footpath where content
creation was done by a select few and information came mostly from directories.

Web 2.0 (2005-present)

The Social Web, or Web 2.0, made the internet a lot more interactive thanks to advancements in web
technologies like Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, etc., which enabled startups to build interactive web
platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia and many more.

This paved the way for both social networks and user-generated content production to flourish since
data can now be distributed and shared between various platforms and applications.

The set of tools in this internet era was pioneered by a number of web innovators like the
aforementioned Jeffrey Zeldman.

Web 3.0 (yet to come)

Web 3.0 is the next stage of the web evolution that would make the internet more intelligent or process
information with near-human-like intelligence through the power of AI systems that could run smart
programs to assist users.

Tim Berners-Lee had said that the Semantic Web is meant to "automatically" interface with systems,
people and home devices. As such, content creation and decision-making processes will involve both
humans and machines. This would enable the intelligent creation and distribution of highly-tailored
content straight to every internet consumer.
Key Features of Web 3.0

To really understand the next stage of the internet, we need to take a look at the four key features of
Web 3.0:

Ubiquity

Semantic Web

Artificial Intelligence

3D Graphics

Ubiquity

Ubiquity means being or having the capacity to be everywhere, especially at the same time. In other
words, omnipresent.

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Web 2.0 is already ubiquitous: a FB user can instantly capture an image and share it, which becomes
ubiquitous since it's available to anyone no matter where they are, as long as they have FB access.

Web 3.0 simply takes this a step further by making the internet accessible to everyone anywhere, at any
time. At some point, internet-connected devices will no longer be concentrated on computers and
smartphones like in Web 2.0 since IoT (Internet of Things) technology will bring forth a plethora of new
types of smart devices.

Semantic Web

Semantic(s) is the study of the relationship between words.

Tap to Flip

Therefore, the Semantic Web, according to Berners-Lee, enables computers to analyze loads of data
from the Web, which includes content, transactions and links between persons.

In practice, how would this look? Let’s take these two sentences, for instance:

I love Bitcoin

I <3 Bitcoin

Their syntax may be different, but their semantics are pretty much the same, since semantics only deals
with the meaning or emotion of the content.

Applying semantics in the Web would enable machines to decode meaning and emotions by analyzing
data. Consequently, internet users will have a better experience driven by enhanced data connectivity.

Artificial Intelligence
Wikipedia defines AI as intelligence demonstrated by machines.

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And since Web 3.0 machines can read and decipher the meaning and emotions conveyed by a set of
data, it brings forth intelligent machines.

Although Web 2.0 presents similar capabilities, it is still predominantly human-based, which opens up
room for corrupt behaviors such as biased product reviews, rigged ratings, etc.

For instance, online review platforms like Trustpilot provide a way for consumers to review any product
or service. Unfortunately, a company can simply gather a large group of people and pay them to create
positive reviews for its undeserving products. Therefore, the internet needs AI to learn how to
distinguish the genuine from the fake in order to provide reliable data.

Google’s AI system recently removed around 100,000 negative reviews of the Robinhood app from the
Play Store following the Gamespot trading debacle when it detected attempts of rating manipulation
intended to artificially downvote the app. This is AI in action, which will soon seamlessly fit into Internet
3.0, enabling blogs and other online platforms to sift data and tailor them to each user's liking. As AI
advances, it will ultimately be able to provide users with the best filtered and unbiased data possible.

Spatial Web and 3D Graphics

Some futurists also call Web 3.0 the Spatial Web as it aims to blur the line between the physical and the
digital by revolutionizing graphics technology, bringing into clear focus 3D virtual worlds.
Tap to Flip

Unlike their 2D counterparts, 3D graphics bring a new level of immersion not only in futuristic gaming
applications like Decentraland, but also other sectors like real estate, health and e-commerce.

Web 3.0 Applications

A common requirement for a Web 3.0 application is the ability to digest large-scale information and turn
it into factual knowledge and useful executions for users. With that being said, these applications are
still at their early stages, which means that they have a lot of room for improvement and are a far cry
from how Web 3.0 apps could potentially function.

Some of the companies that are building or have products that they are transforming into Internet 3.0
applications are Amazon, Apple and Google. Two examples of applications that utilize Web 3.0
technologies are Siri and Wolfram Alpha.

Siri
Wolfram Alpha

Over the years, Apple’s voice-controlled AI assistant has grown more intelligent and has expanded its
abilities since its first appearance in the iPhone 4S model. Siri uses speech recognition, along with
artificial intelligence, to be able to perform complex and personalized commands.

Today, Siri and other AI assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Samsung’s Bixby can understand requests
such as “where is the nearest burger joint” or “book an appointment with Sasha Marshall at 8:00 am
tomorrow” and immediately come up with the right information or action.

Wolfram Alpha is a “computational knowledge engine” that answers your questions directly by
computation, as opposed to giving you a list of webpages like search engines do. If you want a practical
comparison, search “england vs brazil” on both Wolfram Alpha and Google and see the difference.
Google gives the results of the World Cup even if you didn’t include “football” as a keyword, since it is
the most popular search. Alpha, on the other hand, would give you a detailed comparison of the two
countries, like you asked. That’s the key difference between Web 2.0 and 3.0.

Closing Thoughts

The new internet will provide a more personal and customized browsing experience, a smarter and
more human-like search assistant, and other decentralized benefits that are hoped will help to establish
a more equitable web. This will be achieved by empowering each individual user to become a sovereign
over their data, and creating a richer overall experience thanks to the myriad of innovations that is to
come once it is in place.

When Web 3.0 inevitably arrives — as hard as it is to fathom considering how smart devices have
already changed our behavioral patterns — the internet will become exponentially more integrated in
our daily lives.

We will see nearly all of today’s normally offline machines, from home appliances like ovens, vacuums,
and refrigerators to all types of transport become part of the IoT economy, interacting with its
autonomous servers and decentralized applications (DApps), advancing new digital realms like
blockchain and digital asset to power a myriad of new tech “miracles” for the 21st century.

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What is Web 3.0 and will it change our lives?

The World Wide Web is changing, again. But it might not be immediately apparent, given that Tim
Berners-Lee’s creation is now an intrinsic part of everyday life for millions of people.

Ask any expert how the web is evolving and they’re likely to tell you that we’re on the brink of Web 3.0.
But what is Web 3.0 and how – if at all – is it likely to change our lives?

What is Web 3.0 and will it change our lives? Blueberry Consultants

Firstly, let’s take a brief history lesson in the evolution of the web…

A (Very) Brief History Of The Web

It is generally agreed that there have been, thus far, two phases of the web. They’re known, quite
simply, as ‘Web 1.0’ and ‘Web 2.0’ and can be described as follows:

Web 1.0

Where it all began. A one-way platform that enabled people to consume content on the Internet.
Typically made up of simple, text- and image-based web pages, Web 1.0 was characterised by the first
business websites and early adoption as a route to market by media companies like the BBC and CNN.

User interaction and the ability to generate one’s own content were pretty much absent from Web 1.0
and web searches relied on very specific phrases. Intelligent and malleable, it was not.
Web 2.0

The introduction of new web design practices and more powerful web browsers heralded the dawn of
Web 2.0, which placed the emphasis on human and social interaction on the web.

This resulted in the rich, responsive web design we see today and the rise of the web app, which turned
webpages into software applications capable of complex tasks previously only available on native
Windows or Mac software.

While the type of content that could be consumed widened considerably, Web 2.0 also introduced the
notion of user-generated content, by putting publishing tools into the hands of anyone who wanted to
promote their own writing, podcasts or video productions.

So, What Is Web 3.0?

Web 3.0 is a more intelligent beast. By harnessing the power of big data and machine learning, it has
become known as the ‘semantic web’, where user data and behaviour is analysed and used to deliver a
more personal web browsing experience. A perfect example of this in action can be found within the
realm of advertising where promotions for products in which you have an active interest follow you
around the web.

But many experts also believe that Web 3.0 will allow for a faster, more intuitive web experience with
the ability to abandon command line search phrases and instead speak to the likes of Google naturally.
“Show me all of the films that are on at my local cinema tomorrow evening,” being a perfect example of
a search phrase that will deliver the desired results in the Web 3.0 era.

How Web 3.0 Will Benefit Our Lives

We think there are, rather appropriately, three reasons the rise of Web 3.0 will change our lives for the
better:

1. A more personalised browsing experience

As invasive as those adverts may sometimes feel, there is no doubting the convenience in being able to
easily click through to a special offer for something you genuinely need or want and that you may have
otherwise missed.

Web 3.0 provides a far more personalised browsing experience for all of us. Websites can automatically
customise themselves to best fit our device, location and any accessibility requirements we may have
and web apps will become far more attuned to our usage habits.

2. Better search

As noted previously, the ability to speak in natural language with a search engine is incredibly powerful.
The learning curve becomes almost non-existent, and the benefits extend far beyond the consumer;
businesses will increasingly be able to take a more natural approach to the search engine optimisation
on their websites, rather than resorting to tricky keyword strategies.

3. Richer app experiences

It isn’t just websites that will benefit from the multifaceted Web 3.0 – web apps will also start to offer
far richer experiences for users.

Consider a mapping service like Google, which is now able to combine the basics of location search with
route guidance, hotel recommendations and live traffic updates. This simply wasn’t possible in the Web
2.0 era.

Conclusion

Just as the Internet of Things (IoT) is gradually creating a more digitally-centric, connected society, Web
3.0 is removing any lingering complexity from the web and making it more accessible for a greater
number of people.

What’s more, Web 3.0 is here – now. We’re in the early stages of some forms of Web 3.0 technology,
but if you’ve conducted a search on Google today and used natural language to find an answer to your
question, you have already experienced the benefits of this next chapter in the story of the World Wide
Web.

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Sharona Sabrina Hannoeman

5th March 2017 at 4:49 pm

Great article but how is it providing richer app experiences?

Raspal Chima

7th March 2017 at 4:48 pm

Consider a mapping service like Google, which is now able to combine the basics of location search with
route guidance, hotel recommendations and live traffic updates. This simply wasn’t possible in the Web
2.0 era.

Apps will also be able to exchange data between each other and even generate new information (e.g.
how Last.fm anticipates what music the user may enjoy based on their previous song selections).

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By 101 BLOCKCHAINS July 29, 2018

web 3-0 examples

The article will focus on the evolution of the Web, mainly Web 3.0 examples and architecture, to
understand how it can reshape the world as we see it.

The Web has been there for the last two decades. It has been the backbone of all our existence and
growth. Right now, millions of users use it on a daily basis, creating value for our economy and growing
human society to a new horizon. Right now, we are at a stage where we are moving towards a
decentralized web known as Web 3.0.

It might seem like an impossible situation, but in reality, it’s already started to shift toward that. So, let’s
get into the nitty-gritty of Web 3.0 and its ecosystem without losing any time.

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Web 3.0 Definition: What is Web 3.0?

Web 3.0 is all about a more transparent and fairer network where everyone can participate without
fearing a loss of privacy and security. The shift from Web 2.0 to 3.0 is evident with the evolution of
technology around us.

Technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and others will make it easy to provide a more
personalized web experience than ever. Also, web apps will be more intuitive and will make them more
accessible for people to use in their daily lives. We now have a lot of Web 3.0 app examples that we will
discuss in this article.
Web 3.0 Simply Explained

The introduction of blockchain has also changed how Web 3.0 will work. As we already mentioned, the
focus will move to the users rather than the corporation. Web 3.0 blockchain technology stack covers a
lot of the elements similar to blockchain stack.

Web 3.0: The Start of a New Era

Now that we have understood what Web 3.0 is let’s get deep into what Web 3.0 has to offer.

Web 3.0 is a completely new era—the era of decentralization where applications that use the
decentralized network will reign supreme. Also, no traditional business model will not go affected by this
change. You will see new types of blockchain business models to slowly gain popularity. Almost
everything can be improved and envisioned with new technologies, especially with blockchain.

Benefits of Web 3.0

We are moving through a revolution that can change our lives completely. Web 1.0 was all about
building the basic technologies and the ability to connect through the internet. Web 2.0 took ahead of
what Web 2.0 has to offer. However, it was primarily controlled by organizations and corporations for
their self-benefit.

Web 3.0 brings the human aspect back by providing privacy and security to the users rather than making
corporations more powerful than ever. The vision of Web 3.0 changed in the last 7-8 years. Initially, it
was simple, but with the introduction of blockchain and bitcoin, the vision and approach have changed
completely. Now, Web 3 focuses more on the decentralized features that the blockchain has to offer.

So, what are the benefits of Web 3.0?

Anti-monopoly and Pro-privacy

Web 3.0 will bring a pro-privacy and anti-monopoly structure to the network. It will not incentivize
centralized platforms.

In short, we will see a complete turnaround where the central theme will be privacy and
decentralization. The middle-man will know no business or need for this kind of platform. This move will
be facilitated with the help of blockchains such as Ethereum, Hyperledger, Corda, and others.

The government, on the other hand, will also see decentralization. For the best interest, it is wise for
corporations to adapt to new standards of Web 3.0 by providing decentralized services that focus on
privacy and security rather than control.

Secure Network

Web 3.0 features will be more secure than its predecessors. This is made possible by two factors,
including distributed nature and decentralization. Hackers or exploiters will find it difficult to penetrate
the network. Also, if they are able to do so, each of their operations can be tracked and retracted within
the network.

Without centralization, it will also become hard for hackers to take full control of an organization.
However, blockchain platforms do suffer from some form of exploits such as 51% attack, but most of the
blockchain apps and platforms can quickly be patched to protect these types of threats.

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Data Ownership

Users will find it easy to trust Web 3.0. Until now, the data generated by the users were stored and used
by big corporations. With Web 3.0 features, end-users will have full data ownership. The data that is
transferred through the network will be completely encrypted.
Also, users will be able to decide which information they want to share with corporations or 3rd party
advertising platforms. However, the current trend is completely different.

With Web 3.0 features, the users can now sell their data to corporations and earn from it.

Interoperability

Interoperability is one of the key features of Web 3.0. With a decentralized network, it will become easy
for applications to work across different devices and platforms such as T.V.s, smartphones, smart roads,
and so on.

Developers will also find it easy to develop Web 3.0 apps.

No Interruption in Service

Distributed systems are less prone to service interruption. As there is no central entity for functioning, it
becomes hard for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) or other forms of service malfunction attempts
to have an impact. This makes Web 3 a great place to share data and critical services without worrying
about service interruption.

Permissionless Blockchains

The idea behind Web 3.0 is to power blockchains that don’t need a central authority. This means that
anyone can join the blockchain and participate by creating an address. Permissionless blockchains open
up a new array of possibilities, including access to people who are early discriminated against due to
their gender, income, geography, and so on. Although there are permissioned blockchains as well.

So, what exactly it means in layman’s terms? It means that there won’t be any restrictions on Web 3.0.

Semantic Web

Web 3.0 will also host the properties of a semantic web. The semantic Web is an improvement over the
last set of technologies that are used for Web 2.0. It enables data to be shared across multiple systems,
platforms, and community boundaries. It will act as a bridge between different data formats and
platforms.

By using the semantic Web, we will be able to connect better, share, and enjoy the internet as never
before.

Ubiquity

Ubiquity is the result of interoperability. With Web 3.0, we can access data and information across
multiple applications without the need for a particular device. This means that you don’t have to worry
about getting a particular device to get access to Web 3.0. If a device has basic internet functionality and
connectivity, you will be able to access the Web.

All in all, our lives will be completely changed as we will be connected through a better set of
technologies such as artificial intelligence, the blockchain, and much more!

Hopefully, by now, you have got an idea of what is Web 3.0 and its benefits.

dApps – The Door to the Web 3.0

Now that we have understood what Web 3.0 has to offer, we also need to learn how it will work. Do we
get a new browser or a new interface? Well, not really.

We will still be using the same browser and the internet. However, internally, it will change drastically.
The new technologies at work will take some time to mature, but once it does, there will be a lot of new
things to explore (at least technically). For a normal user, there will be less learning curve.

However, the businesses need to transform their technology stack completely and need to adopt
blockchain and related technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, etc., to be ready for the
future.

Here, we will mainly use decentralized applications (dApps).

Each transaction on the internet (Web 3) will be signed and verified before being committed. This will
make the internet a secure place. Users will also become safe when it comes to the new Web. We will
be using a lot of other apps that will utilize new technologies.

Web 3.0 dApps

The transition has already started with the Web 3.0 dApps. To get a better understanding, we will be
divided into different categories and discuss the dApps that will replace traditional services and
applications. Using the dApps, one can easily create decentralized organizations‘ business models as
well. The transition is inevitable, and it is only time when mass adoption of these apps will take place. To
really get a clear picture of what is Web 3.0, you need to deeply understand dApps.

To make it easy for you to follow, we will be listing the different categories. They are as follows.

Social Networks

Exchange Services

Messaging

Storage

Insurance and Banking

Streaming (Video and Music)

Remote Job

Browser

Social Networks

Social networks play a crucial role in our lives and transform how we communicate, interact and form
communities. However, the current generation of social networks is not free from problems. They are
limiting, censored, and works towards an internal agenda. Social networks can also be brought by big
corporations or government to control the user’s point of view and try to mold them accordingly.
Web 3.0 will completely change how the social network works. With the use of blockchain, it will not be
possible for social platforms to be limited in any way. Anyone can join irrespective of their geographical
limitations.

Not to mention these social networks have full authority over the data that is shared and stored on the
platform. Facebook, for example, recently got stuck in their Cambridge Analytica Scandal. Facebook
leaked the data of millions of users, breaking their privacy to a great extent. Google, on the other hand,
is also not free from misuses of user data. Overall, if you use any of the current social networks, you are
basically trading your data as a fee to use them.

With Web 3.0 social networks, the complete landscape will change—platforms such as Sapien, Steemit,
Sola, Indorse, onG.Social, PROPS Project, Yours, etc., looks promising. All of them utilize blockchain and
next-generation technologies such as artificial intelligence. Let’s list a few of them below.

Social Network Web 3.0 Examples

Sapien: Sapien is one of the unique Web 3.0 examples. It is a democratized social news platform that
takes advantage of the Ethereum blockchain. Also, it is highly customizable. It is an excellent alternative
to Google or Facebook when seen from the social news perspective.

Steemit: Steemit is another great example of Web 3.0 websites. It runs entirely on the Steem
blockchain. Again, iIt is best described as a decentralized reward platform that helps contributors to
monetize their content. It is an alternative to Reddit.

Sola: Sola uses blockchain A.I. to create a hybrid of social networks and media. It spreads useful
information to the readers according to their preference, all with the help of A.I. algorithms. This way,
users get what they want, and that too high-quality content.
These conclude the listing of social networks Web 3.0 websites. All these Web 3.0 app examples fit right
into the Web 3.0 definition.

Benefits of decentralized social networks

No central authority that captures data and uses it.

Empowers users by rewarding them with some form of asset.

Improves on the Web 2.0 social networks in almost every way.

Protects the privacy of the users. Users decide what they want to share and when.

Big corporations and organizations lose power to influence big corporations.

Decentralized social networks are a great idea and can change how we think, share, and communicate.
However, many experts question its real-world implementation and wonder if it will work or not. For
now, we can only wait and see what they hold and offer in the near future.

Exchange Services

When it comes to the exchange services, centralization is not at all effective. The biggest failure that we
can see is when the exchange Mt. Gox got hacked. The hack cost them $460 million worth of bitcoin in
2014. Its value would be at least 1000 times more now.

Decentralized exchanges are slowly growing in popularity as they provide a seamless user trade
experience without worrying about any hacks or transparency. This also means that there is no
centralized authority and no conflict of interest from the owner’s side. They mainly use many
decentralized finance applications to streamline their services. As we already know that the Web 3.0
depends on trust, it is all about decentralized exchange. Let’s list some of the few decentralized
exchange services out there.

Decentralized Exchanges Web 3.0 Examples

IDEX: IDEX is a popular decentralized exchange for trading ERC-20 tokens. It provides a good interface
for users, and anyone with an Ethereum wallet can start trading on the platform. To make the best use
of IDEX or any decentralized Ethereum based exchange, you need to use MetaMask.
EOSFinex: EOSFinex is a decentralized exchange that runs on top of EOS.IO software. It is currently in
development by Bitfinex, one of the largest centralized exchanges out there. There are many more
dApps in the EOS landscape.

This concludes decentralized cryptocurrency Web 3.0 websites. The examples that we listed fit the Web
3.0 examples.

Benefits of decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges

Cheaper transactions

Faster transactions

Hard to hack due to the decentralized nature

Works well with hardware wallets

Users control their own funds

Messaging

Messaging has been part of our lives from the day we started using the internet. Well, for most of us, it
is either using WhatsApp or Facebook messenger. Other messenger types include Telegram, which is
mostly used by startups, businesses, and other forms of professional work.

On the other hand, the government also tends to run its network of intelligence to track down
messages, and that is only possible because of centralized solutions.

The solution is Web 3.0 powered apps such as e-Chat, ySign, Obsidian, Riot, and so on. All of these take
advantage of blockchain and ensure that the privacy of users is maintained.

Messenger Web 3.0 Examples

e-Chat: e-Chat is a decentralized blockchain-powered Web 3.0 app that offers secure messenger. It is
also one of the fastest-growing social networks. By using this messenger, the users get real freedom and
can also send cryptocurrency through it. The e-Chat app is already available on App Store and Play
Market. It is a great example of Web 3.0 websites.
Obsidian: Obsidian is a promising Web 3.0 project. It is based on STRAT and is powered by their Stratis
coin. It is a messenger of the next generation of users. Also, it provides a secure environment where
users can communicate or even send funds to each other.

ySign: ySign is yet another communication messenger that is a perfect example of Web 3.0 example. It is
set to change the world of messengers with its solution.

This leads us to the end of Messenger Web 3.0 website listing. These examples fit well within the Web
3.0 definition.

Benefits of Decentralized messenger

Privacy

Send assets fast and in a secure way.

Your data cannot be used for advertising

Fast transactions

Even though there are plenty of advantages to Web 3.0 messengers, it still has drawbacks. For example,
criminals can use decentralized platforms to send data and information that cannot be traced by
authorities. It can also be used for illegal asset transfers.

Storage

There is a lot of innovation that goes into data storage. However, the current state of data storage can
be changed with Web 3.0 technologies such as blockchain and big data. As a normal user, we store data
on Google Drive and other cloud storage solutions on the internet. It is an entirely different story for the
companies as they prefer a more robust and centralized solution to store their valuable data.

The data breach at Linkedin was the worst as it exposed the username and password for 117 million
Linkedin users. Uber also meet a similar fate when data of 57 million Uber customers were stolen. The
breaches were partly because of the data store they were using.
Current storage systems are also centralized, meaning that the data can be manipulated or used for
doing other forms of activities such as selling the data to 3rd parties for advertising purposes.

Decentralized Storage Basics

The basic idea behind decentralized storage is all about sharing files and data through a peer-to-peer
connection. The security in decentralized storage is also top-notch as the sender can simply encrypt the
files and then send them to the receiver. It can also break the files into pieces and then send them.

Hosting will also be completely possible with a decentralized solution. The hosting will simply keep a
shard file that contains the file content in an encrypted format. A hosted file can also be recalled using
the private key. Some of these apps use Hyperledger blockchain to facilitate their features.

Decentralized Storage Web 3.0 Examples

Storj: Storj is one of the leading decentralized storage solutions. It is also one of the oldest. With Storj,
anyone can store data. It is also open-source and easy to use. Anyone can get started with it by just 1-
Click Start. The payment model is created around users as they can pay as they use. Storj token is used
to fuel the Storj platform.

Sia: Sia is also a promising decentralized storage solution and is also held as the biggest competition of
Storj. Sia splits the file into thirty segments and then distribute it accordingly. It also encrypts the file
while transferring.

Filecoin: The last project that caught my attention is Filecoin. It is a project by Protocol Labs and works in
a dual approach and uses two types of network nodes.

This ends the listing of Storage Web 3.0 websites. All the examples fit right in the Website 3.0
definitions.

Benefits of Decentralized Storage Solutions

It works well across different platforms or even blockchain solution.

Protects the data being transferred with strong encryption.

No centralized entity means that anyone cannot use the data.

It is cheap and works well with next-generation technologies such as IoT.

Insurance and Banking

Insurance and Banking is one of the most corrupted sections of our society. For example, is run with a
philosophy of making profits. Banking, on the other hand, also is not free from all the shackles of
negativity. Overall, we can safely say that the current system is broken and needs to be more
transparent and secure for the users to thrive in it.

Both the insurance and banking sector can see a revolution with blockchain technology. There are many
use cases of this technology, and the impact can be seen early than thought. The transformation will
take place through the use of blockchain features, including transparency, security, retractability. This
means that fraud will not be possible in banking or insurance.

Records can now be kept on the blockchain. Also, smart contracts can be used to automate most of the
tasks that don’t require any human touch. The implementation of blockchain means that the users will
be benefitted the most. Insurance claims will be easy, and the whole process can be carried out with
minimal or no paperwork. False claims will also see a deterrence. Digitally savvy users will also find the
change useful.

Insurance and Banking Web 3.0 Examples

AiGang: Aigang is a DAO insurance protocol that offers crowd-sources insurance pools discovery. It can
be used by users who can win rewards by prediction powered by DAO smart contracts.

Everledger: It is a distributed digital global registry that aims to provide unique records to each user. The
users can digitally store data and have access to them anytime they want. It protects

the users and banks, open marketplace, and insurers from frauds.

Cashaa: Cashaa is the next generation banking platform that provides regulation, compliance, and
security. It provides instant crypto banking loans and also offer cryptocurrency trading.
Safe Share: The company is currently developing insurance products that take advantage of the shared
network, such as blockchain. It brings confidence in business and helps it grow to new heights.

This concludes the listing of insurance and banking Web 3.0 websites. All these examples fit right into
the Web 3.0 definitions.

Benefits of blockchain for Insurance and Banking

No or fewer frauds.

False claims can be blocked and removed

Improved customer experience.

Empowering digital savvy

Internal audits for banks can be done easily.

International and cross-payment is now a possibility with blockchain.

Streaming (Video and Music)

Streaming is a big industry. Also, it is stated to grow more readily in the upcoming period. As a user, you
already know the big players that surround us.

Even though they provide a great user experience, the whole concept of monopoly is not good for the
industry in the long run. Many issues, including unclear policies, also plague the current streaming
platforms. They also utilize the user data for advertising purposes, which breaks the privacy users want
when they are online. All the streaming platforms are almost free regarding cost. In that case, you
become the product for them.

Also, when it comes to content creators, Twitch and YouTube fail to justify low payments. New
streamers find it hard to get started on any of the platforms, and neither of the platforms has a solution
to this problem. In short, the centralized control over the streaming platform doesn’t provide equal
opportunity to everyone around us.
Meet Web 3.0 applications and their functions for video and music. In Web 3.0 video examples, we have
the likes of Livepeer, Viuly, Flixxo, Videocoin, LBRY, and so on.

All the above platforms are promising and solve the problem of video and music streaming in their own
way.

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Web 3.0 Video and Music Websites Examples

To get a better grasp, let’s list video and music Web 3.0 websites.

LivePeer: Livepeer is a decentralized platform that runs on the blockchain. It provides an open-source
streaming service that aims to build a streaming stack for Web 3.0.

LBRY: LBRY is a decentralized digital library that houses a different form of content. As a user, you can
read, watch and play on the platform. This means it supports books, music, and videos, and it seems to
be one of the oldest Web 3.0 projects.

UjoMusic: UjoMusic is a music platform where music creators can upload their music and distribute it
without copyright and royalty issues. Cryptocurrency and smart contracts power it.

Maestro: Maestro is a music streaming platform for listeners and artists that utilize blockchain.

Benefits of blockchain in streaming

Content creators can work in a transparent environment

Everyone gets an equal chance to promote their work.

Copyright issues will be negligible thanks to smart contracts

No central authority means that will be no absurd policy for streamers and content creators.

Remote Job

The world is moving towards remote jobs. In the U.S. alone, freelancing and remote jobs make a lot of
the U.S. workforce. It is quite fascinating to see where we are headed as we prefer working from home
than in the office. Whatever may be the reasons, the centralized remote job platforms are not up to the
mark.

Decentralized remote job/freelance platforms can readily solve these problems. Some of the examples
include EthLance, Atlas.Work, CryptoTask, Blocklancer, and so on.

Remote Jobs Web 3.0 Examples

To get a better grasp, let’s list Jobs Web 3.0 websites.

Ethlance: Ethlance is a decentralized, remote job platform that works on top of the Ethereum
blockchain. Anyone can hire and work in exchange for Ether cryptocurrency. The most significant
advantage of using this platform is 0% service fees, no restrictions on membership, and so on.

Atlas.Work: Atlast.Work is a blockchain-powered freelancing platform that is scalable and uses smart
contracts and machine learning to empower a freelancing ecosystem where both freelancers and
employers can enjoy maximum benefit. It has a flat charge rate of 2$ per task.

CryptoTask: CryptoTask is yet another Web 3.0 powered project that has no fees and censorship for
users. It also uses an advanced algorithm for matching freelancers with gigs.

Benefits of decentralized, remote jobs platform

No-or-minimal fees.

No-centralized authority means anyone can join.

No-restriction for joining the platform.

Get paid in cryptocurrency

Browser

Browsers are the doorway to the internet. The two major browsers out there are Google Chrome and
Firefox. They capture most of the market. Google’s dominance is in no way ignored.

We explore the Web through the web browser. For browsing the web 3.0, we need a browser that fits
the decentralized Web’s philosophical aspect. Also, the current-gen browsers are not completely secure
when it comes to protecting users.

When users go into infected websites, their computers can get infected. Browsers also leak information
if they are not well developed according to current security standards. For example, your browser stores
your location, hardware and software information, connection information, social media information,
and so on.

The users are also vulnerable through the add-ons that these modern browsers have to offer. The
solution is to use a decentralized browser that provides a better ecosystem using blockchain technology.

A few of the Web 3.0 browser examples include Brave and Breaker browsers. All these examples fit right
into the Web 3.0 definitions.

Web 3.0 Browser Examples

Brave: Brave is all about privacy where users are not the product. The browser comes pre-installed with
Ad-blocker. It will also allow users to sell their data in exchange for cryptocurrency.

Breaker Browser: It is a next-generation web browser that is peer-to-peer based. It is a place where
anyone can join, share and supercharge their apps. Also, it is a creative tool that can be explored by
anyone. It is a Web 3.0 browser.

Benefits of Decentralized Browser

Users can privately browse the internet.

No or fewer security loopholes.

The users can sell their data to an organization and get paid.

Fast and secure.

Conclusion

Web 3.0 is here to stay. We are at the initial stages where the Web 3.0 applications and their functions
are still in development. Also, there need to a need for mass adoption for Web 3.0. It may take ten years
to change the web landscape completely. Even so, it’s well worth the wait and necessary for now.

If you want to learn more about Web 3.0 and its ecosystem, you can start with our free blockchain
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Greetings to all!

Web 3.0 as concept and technology is important and here is why.

Day after day, the amount of data and information as we discussed in the last post on the internet grows
exponentially. New sites, images, videos and all sort of digital materials are coming up every second.
Thus, with this huge set of data, a major challenge is how to cost-effectively extract what is relevant to
our day-to-day activities. Therefore:

In a complex ever-changing information-intensive context, Web 3.0 tools are valuable for users in
organizing information and business processes at large scale.

O que vou encontrar neste artigo? [esconder]

1 The evolution of the Web

2 Evolution of the Web summarized

3 Web 3.0 examples

4 What is Aquarela Advanced Analytics?

The evolution of the Web

Firstly, since the emergence of the first Web version, created in the early 90s by Tim Berners-Lee in
Switzerland, its technologies have undergone significant changes until we reach the surface of Web 3.0,
this happened especially in terms of user’s interactivity and the massification of the internet usage.

In short, according to our research a Aquarela Analytics, the Web’s history presents three major stages:

The Static Web – Web 1.0

The Web 1.0 presented data and information in a predominantly static way, being characterised by low
users’ interaction with the content. For instance: leaving comments, manipulating or creating content of
a website.

Technologies and methods of Web 1.0 are still widely used for displaying static content such as laws and
manuals like this example: http://copyright.gov/title17/92preface.html . Yet, this text was build on this
paradigm.
That generation of the Web was marked by the centralisation of the content production – such as
portals, AOL and directories, Yahoo, and Craigslist.

On Web 1.0 the user is responsible for its own navigation and the identification of relevant content,
having a predominantly passive role in the process.

Another important aspect is that just few produce information that is consumed for many. Likewise, the
broadcasting model widely used in the media industry by TV, radio, newspapers and magazines.

Web 1.0’s greatest virtue was the democratisation of information access.

The Interactive Web – Web 2.0

Web 2.0 in contrast to Web 1.0 has its content predominantly generated by its users in a process where:
many users produce content and many consume.

An example of this model is Wikipedia. Other examples of user-generated content platforms are in
blogs, social networks and YouTube. In the Web 2.0 users are no longer just content consumers; they
become producers or co-producers of contents.

In this version of the Web, search engines become more advanced and proliferate, since there is no
more room for lists of links in directories, which has given a huge volume of content made by many.

Web 2.0’s great virtue is the democratisation of content production.

The Actionable Intelligent Web – Web 3.0

Web 3.0 or Semantic Web combines the virtues of Web 1.0 and 2.0 by adding machine intelligence.
Tim Berners-Lee (2001), who is the creator of the Web, has published an article in the Scientific
American magazine setting up the foundation of the Semantic Web.

In his words, Berners-Lee explained how two brothers organised the logistics to support their mother
health treatment, using intelligent agents, they do all the planning and execution of the process
automatically interacting with clinical systems, among themselves and with their home devices.

In Web 3.0, the machines get along with users in content production and in decision-making,
transforming traditional supportive role of the internet infrastructure to a protagonist entity in
content/process generation.

Furthermore, Web 3.0 services can unite users and computers for problem-solving and intensive
knowledge creation tasks. Therefore, with its large processing capacity, Web 3.0 is able to bring services
and products to people and businesses with high added value because of their assertiveness and high
customisation.

Web 3.0’s great virtue is the democratisation of the capacity of action and knowledge, which was
previously only accessible to large businesses and governments.

Evolution of the Web summarized

Web 3.0 comparison among previous versions

Web 3.0 comparison among previous versions

Web 3.0 examples

Examples of Web 3.0 applications are Wolfram Alpha and Apple’s Siri, which can summarise large
amounts of information into knowledge and useful actions for people.

Wolfram Alpha

We can do a little comparison between Wolfram Alpha and Google, using both tools, typing the “Brazil
vs. Argentina” phrase in both searching engines, and then we see big differences in the results:
Search results Google vs WolframAlpha

In the case of Google, the results turn out to be mostly about football games between Brazil and
Argentina. Note that the word “football” or “games” were not mentioned in the search.

In Wolfram Alpha, the tool considers that the search is a comparison between two countries and
consequently brings organised statistics, historical, geographical (maps), demographic, linguistic and
other useful aspects for comparison analysis.

Siri

The Apple’s Siri, in turn, uses techniques of speech recognition and artificial intelligence to bring results
and perform actions such as:

“Where is the nearest pizzeria?” or

“How far am I from the nearest gas station” or “make an appointment at 9:00 am tomorrow.”

Above all, Traditional tools (Web 1.0 and 2.0) make search matching “word by word like” of the text in
relation to what is published on the network. In other words, often it brings information bias of what is
most abundant ending up not bringing what is most relevant to the user at that time.

Web 3.0 systems, however, seek contextualised knowledge to assist people in their jobs, pointing to
series of analysis and potentially helpful information.

One of the distinctions of Web 3.0 search engine, is the time that user need to spend sailing in a sea of
information to find what he/she really wants to get solved.
Companies like Apple and IBM have been investing heavily in Web 3.0 technologies, for example, the
Google Inc. over the past decade has made several acquisitions of companies in the Semantic Web area,
such as Applied Semantics, and Metaweb Technologies, Inc, among others.

Conclusions em recommendations

We are living in an interesting time in history, where the Web begins to bring more knowledge and
action capacity for its users, resulting in considerable changes in several aspects of daily life.

This new type of Web is moving fast towards a more dynamic and faster changing environment, where
the democratisation of the capacity of action and knowledge can speed up business in almost all areas.

The areas impacted by Web 3.0 are ranging from: retail to applied molecular medicine; from micro-
businesses to large corporations.

It is worth for innovative minds, whether business people, politicians, or researchers, to understand this
new horizon of possibilities and be prepared for the new generation of businesses.

Some new business with the semantic web are already happening and, increasingly taking their
momentum in the national and international markets.

Web 3.0 is the progressive evolution of the Web. Hence by not getting along with its evolution,
managers might bring organizational risks that suddenly might become obsolete or irrelevant at the
time of paradigm shifts like the giants of the past such as Kodak, Nokia and Altavista.

In future posts, we will talk about Data Analytics and Big Data solutions that we developed and which we
believe to be the way to materialize business faster (earlier) than Web 3.0 and Linked Open Data (LOD),
although all of them are getting more and more intertwined. It is important to understand the way Web
3.0 is getting through Big Data and LOD.

Several interesting challenges ahead!

What is Aquarela Advanced Analytics?

Aquarela Analytics is Brazilian pioneering company and reference in the application of Artificial
Intelligence in industry and large companies. With the Vortx platform and DCIM methodology, it serves
important global customers such as Embraer (aerospace), Randon Group (automotive), Solar Br Coca-
Cola (food), Hospital das Clínicas (health), NTS- Brazil (oil and gas), Votorantim (energy), among others.

Stay tuned following Aquarela’s Linkedin!

Joni Hoppen

Founder – Director of International/Digital Expansion, Master in Business Information Technology at

University of Twente – The Netherlands. Professor and lecturer in the area of Data Science, specialist in
intelligence systems architecture and new business development for industry.

Marcos Santos

Founder of Aquarela, CEO and architect of the VORTX platform. Master in Engineering and Knowledge
Management, enthusiast of new technologies, having expertise in Scala functional language and
algorithms of Machine Learning and IA.

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DEFINITION

Web 3.0

Web 3.0 is the third generation of internet services for websites and applications that will focus on using
a machine-based understanding of data to provide a data-driven and semantic web.

Alexander S. Gillis, Technical Writer and Editor

09 Jul 2019

Web 3.0 is the third generation of internet services for websites and applications that will focus on using
a machine-based understanding of data to provide a data-driven and Semantic Web. The ultimate goal
of Web 3.0 is to create more intelligent, connected and open websites.

Web 3.0 has not yet been implemented, so there is no solid definition. It took over ten years to
transition from the original web, Web 1.0, to Web 2.0, and it is expected to take just as long, if not
longer, to fully implement and reshape the web with Web 3.0. However, the technologies that some
people believe are going to make up and ultimately define Web 3.0 are currently being developed.
Smart home appliances using wireless networks and the Internet of Things (IoT) are two examples of
how Web 3.0 is already impacting technology.

If the trend of change is traced from Web 1.0, a static information provider where people read websites
but rarely interacted with them, to Web 2.0, an interactive and social web enabling collaboration
between users, then it can be assumed that Web 3.0 will change both how websites are made and how
people interact with them.

Web 3.0 properties

Web 3.0 may be constructed with artificial intelligence (AI), semantic web and ubiquitous properties in
mind. The idea behind using AI comes from the goal of providing faster, more relevant data to end-
users. A website using AI should be able to filter through and provide the data it thinks a specific user
will find appropriate. Social bookmarking as a search engine can provide better results than Google since
the results are websites that have been voted on by users. However, these results can also be
manipulated by humans. AI could be used to separate the legitimate results from the falsified, therefore
producing results similar to social bookmarking and social media, but without bad feedback.

An artificially intelligent web will also introduce virtual assistants, an element that is already emerging
today as an aspect built into a device or through third party apps.

The idea behind the semantic web is to categorize and store information in a way that helps teach a
system what specific data means. In other words, a website should be able to understand words put in
search queries the same way a human would, enabling it to generate and share better content. This
system will also use AI; semantic web will teach a computer what the data means and then AI will take
the information and use it.

Ubiquitous computing refers to embedded processing in everyday objects, which enables the
intercommunication of devices in a user’s environment. This is thought to be another property that Web
3.0 will have. The concept is similar to the Internet of Things.

The technologies which will make up these properties include microformats, data mining, natural
language search and machine learning. Web 3.0 will also be more focused on peer-to-peer (P2P)
technologies such as blockchain. Other technologies such as open APIs, data formats and open sourced
software may also be used while developing Web 3.0 applications.

Web 3.0 and Web 2.0

Web 2.0 refers to websites and applications that utilize user-generated content for end users. Web 2.0 is
used in many websites today, chiefly focusing on user interactivity and collaboration. Web 2.0 also
focused on providing more universal network connectivity and communication channels. The difference
between Web 2.0 and 3.0 is that Web 3.0 is more focused on the use of technologies like machine
learning and AI to provide relevant content for each user instead of just the content other end users
have provided. Web 2.0 essentially allows users to contribute and sometimes collaborate on site
content, while Web 3.0 will most likely turn these jobs over to the semantic web and AI technologies.
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Web 3.0

There are enough arguments about “what Web 3.0 is” to make it impossible to point to a single
authoritative definition. But that’s fine, it means we can propose our own definition of Web 3.0.

Here it is:

Web 3.0 is the third generation of the Internet—a global network that permits intelligent interactions
between all its users and devices.

Now to explain ourselves…

Web 1.0 was the early Internet that persisted until about 2000. At first, websites were just places you
could read the information posted on servers and interact with such servers in simple ways. There were
search engines, and there were e-commerce sites like Amazon and eBay.

Web 2.0 arose following the turn of the century. It was far more interactive, far more collaborative, and
far more capable. There were technical reasons why, not least of which was the rapidly improved
bandwidth available to users, and servers. It is this generation of the web that gave us smartphones and
mobile computing. Web 2.0 could support near real-time interactions and thus collaborative activity was
feasible. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter were part of this, but so were graphical multiplayer
games. It also included the birth of Big Data and the machine learning algorithms that sifted through it.

Web 3.0 is defined by intelligence. This intelligence is not just in interactions between people and
websites, but between software and software. And, there’s more than that. The difference between
Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 has multiple aspects.

We will discuss them one by one.

The Underlying File System

Web 1.0 and web 2.0 are defined by the HTTP protocol and the simple file systems it provides access to.
The protocol enables resources to be accessed (via a URL) and also files, particularly HTML documents.

It is a client-server protocol that currently provides the foundation of all data exchanges over the
Internet. The term client-server means that there is a requesting side (a client – usually a web browser)
that calls for information from a server (a computer that serves up information – usually web pages or
parts of web pages).

The protocol works by virtue of Domain Name Servers (DNS) servers. There is a large network of these
which includes thirteen root servers.

You can think of the DNS servers as a postal service for the request you make from your browser via the
HTTP protocol. They deliver that request to the address you specify, which will be something of the
form:

http://www.thewebsite.com/the-page-I-want

When thewebsite.com receives this message, it sends you a message back, the page you want, using the
same postal service.

It may be more complicated than that. In reality, it may involve multiple messages, including ads that
you don’t want to see. Nevertheless, it all happens through a kind of postal service.

With Web 3.0 that mechanism will change. Indeed, we might be inclined to call it Internet 3.0.

The technology that will most likely replace the current DNS system goes by the name of the
InterPlanetary File System, IPFS for short.

Why wasn’t it called the InterStellar Files System or even the InterGalactic File System? Perhaps its
designers lacked ambition.
The IPFS is also a postal system, but it is not centralized around a group of root servers like the HTTP
protocol. The goal in the design of IPFS, which is a child of blockchain technology, was to create a peer-
to-peer file system that worked after the fashion of BitTorrent, the file streaming service that is
frequently used to download and share videos and music.

IPFS separates the act of seeking information from the act of retrieving it. It does so through the magic
of content addressing.

Content addressing is a math trick where you apply a hashing algorithm to some content (such as a web
page) and it generates a unique key that acts as its address. To cut a long story short, you provide the
network with that address, and a server that holds the information sends it to you.

IPFS has lots of advantages over HTTP. Here’s a list:

It is more secure (and SSL is no longer required).

It keeps all the versions of a file, as well as the file.

The data can be distributed in many places. For example, a website does not reside on a particular
server and may not even have a specific origin server, but it’s there somewhere in the file system.

Because the address relates to the content, the address never needs to be updated when the content is
moved.

There’s no real distinction between client and server. Remember it’s like BitTorrent where there are
multiple servers both holding and requesting data, including your own device).

It is significantly faster than HTTP.

It is transport-layer agnostic, which means it can work over any transport layer (from TCP to Bluetooth)

Assuming IPFS is successful, all of these advantages become Web 3.0 advantages.

Digital Identities
Digital identities are another technology that was spawned by the blockchain, and it may become the
most important feature of Web 3.0. The point is that Web 2.0 is infested with cybercrime—dark deeds
of every description from identity theft to click fraud.

It happens because the connection between two computers is not properly authenticated, and currently
cannot be authenticated. Let me spell it out.

With web 2.0 a server never knows for sure that the client software accessing it is what it pretends to be
—a browser under the control of an identifiable human being. Neither, on the other side of the
equation, does the browser know whether the server and the files it is accessing are the ones it intends
to access.

However, if everything involved in such an interaction had a verifiable identity, fraud and deception
would be far more difficult to perpetrate. With Digital IDs, individuals can only have one verifiable
identity, since each ID has to be linked to a unique credential, like a birth certificate. Similarly,
organizations can only have one verifiable identity. As regards everything else (hardware and software)
involved in the interaction between a client and server, these things can be directly tied to a unique ID
belonging to an individual or an organization.

What is more, because of a brilliant technology that goes by the name of zero-knowledge proof, it is
possible for either side to prove they are authentic without even revealing their identity.

Digital IDs enable two important features of Web 3.0:

The severe reduction to the point of elimination of cybercrime.

Individuals will be able to manage and grant access to their personal data.

(As you have probably realized, Permission.io‘s business model is strongly connected to this aspect of
Web 3.0)

Micropayments
The blockchain is fundamental to Web 3.0, in several ways. We have mentioned two so far: bullet-proof
Digital IDs and a distributed file system. Perhaps its most important contribution is its primary use, its
ability to create cryptocurrencies, and particularly the ability to use such currencies to make
micropayments.

This stems from the low cost of a cryptocurrency transaction. In the non-blockchain world, the cost of a
credit or debit card transaction is calculated as a percentage of the value plus a fixed amount (say, 10
cents). The seller pays. So sellers are unlikely to allow credit card payment for products with a ticket
price less than about $10.

The cost of a blockchain payment is generally much lower. In practice, it varies quite a lot between
different cryptocurrencies as it depends on how the blockchain is organized. Low-cost examples include
an EOS transaction at $0.0105 and a TRON transaction was $0.0000901 (measured in March 2018).

With such low transaction costs, it becomes possible to sell things for a few cents. A few cents could be
the fee charged for reading an article from a national or local newspaper or a magazine. Being able to
charge per article that way will revolutionize web publishing. Low-cost sales of products and services will
be a reality with Web 3.0.

Trust

Some might argue that the blockchain’s most important contribution is automated trust. This stretches
beyond the security that the blockchain can deliver through digital IDs by building a web of trust.

Some blockchains enable the creation of “smart contracts”, programs that are attached to the
blockchain and that execute when triggered by a specific blockchain event. The important point about
smart contracts is that the program code is the contract.

This makes smart contracts far more certain than a legal contract. Legal contracts are enforced through
the legal system, which varies in reliability from one place to another but is never perfect. The outcome
of a challenge to a legal contract is never certain.
However, smart contracts can be trusted 100%. A simple example of a smart contract is given by the
movement of goods through a supply chain. Goods are dispatched with an RFID tag that reports their
location when read. When the goods reach specific locations the smart contract can automatically enact
payment—for transport or for warehousing or import duties. Payments are thus predictable and can be
trusted 100% to occur.

Naturally, smart contracts can be far more complex than that example. They can cover many situations
that are currently covered by legal contracts, diminishing the possibility of fraud.

Semantic Data and Information

Another facet of Web 3.0 is the presentation of data in a semantic form. We will not dive into the
technology behind that here, but you can get a sense of it from Google’s Knowledge Graph which places
blocks of organized data to the right of some of your search results.

If you don’t recognize what I’m talking about, do a search on “Galileo’s trial”. Notice that Google gives
you a succinct summary of your search topic, as well as the usual collection of links. That’s the work of
Google’s Knowledge Graph.

But now try a search on “Who attended Galileo’s trial?”

At the moment such a question is too complex for Google to unravel. However, it could if it had a
greater grasp of the meaning of the question and if the websites it surveys organized their metadata in a
more semantically friendly manner.

OK, that’s academic, not economic.

But now think about searching for products. It’s here where the commercial magic of Web 3.0 steps in.
Nowadays in the US, more product searches happen on Amazon than on Google. Yet neither of these
Web 2.0 giants can answer detailed product questions like “what is the best deal available for a 55” HD
TV for delivery within 2 days.”
From the consumer’s perspective, a practical answer to such a question would serve up a range of
information, offering possible choices rather than just a set of web links.

That kind of capability will be part of Web 3.0 by virtue of semantic technology. It will save buyers and
sellers a good deal of time in the sales cycle.

Software Negotiating With Software, Bots for Everyone

The paradigm we have become accustomed to is that of “browser and website”.

We have browser plugins that provide certain services for us (clipping copies of web pages, filling in
passwords, ad blocking, and so on.)

On the website side of the equation, websites have been fairly unresponsive in interacting with their
visitors, with the exception of the web giants with the big bucks who can afford Big Data AI and thus
software that responds to the user in real-time.

The paradigm for Web 3.0 will be different. The individual user will begin to regard what we now call a
browser as a kind of operating system that runs applications. What we now think of as plugins will
become our applications, and while they will still be able to show us documents or videos, as before,
some apps will be capable of much more.

For example, a shopping application will help its owner buy, say a car, by gathering data from him or her
and then going out to find suitable links for the user to visit. Ultimately such software should be able to
help the user through the whole buying process, including negotiating a reasonable price.

Just as nowadays hackers and some websites run bots, in Web 3.0 the user will be able to buy and
configure bots that serve them directly. Bots are, after all, just applications.

This development may take a while as it depends on the proliferation of digital IDs and also good
semantics.
AI and Big Data, for Everyone

Most web users are painfully aware of digital ads that follow them around the web or the ads that
Facebook drops before their eyes or Amazon’s efforts to tempt them to buy something else “they might
like” when they are about to place an order. Among the websites with big budgets, the twin weapons of
Big Data (your data mainly) and AI provide commercial firepower that puts the customer at a
disadvantage.

However, intelligence can cut both ways. AI could equally well serve individuals if they take control of
their data and collaborate in finding effective ways to exploit it. In short, with Web 3.0 the possibilities
of AI are likely to broaden, but to the disadvantage of the big guys.

3D Graphics

The advent of 3D Graphics is a natural consequence of graphical software evolution. If you are not sure
what 3D graphics is, here’s an example. Such animation owes a great deal to WebGL (Web Graphics
Library), which is a JavaScript API that can render interactive 2D and 3D graphics within web browsers
without the need for any plug-in. It is based on the OpenGL graphics language and uses elements of
HTML5. An important technical detail is that it can exploit GPUs and thus performs well.

3D Graphics will make an impact outside the obvious areas of online games and entertainment. It is
likely to be used in education, health care, real estate, and other areas of e-commerce. It’s also likely
that, in time, individuals will design and use their own 3D avatars.

While you can view blockchain-related technology (Distributed file systems, Digital IDs, micropayments,
etc.) as related developments, 3D Graphics is simply an evolutionary development. It was inevitably
going to develop in a given time; it just happens to be coming to maturity at the same time as these
other Web 3.0 technologies.

Complete Connectivity (Ubiquity)

Over time, Web 3.0 will remove many of the inconveniences of Web 2.0.
We can expect the Web to be available on any device (pad, mobile phone, desktop) seamlessly. The
Internet of Things will join the party, with every household device controllable from anywhere and,
where appropriate, able to be used as a web access device.

Ultimately, this means that your identity, and most things you own, and all your data, as well as every
software capability you have a right to use, will be linked together and able to work together.

When Will Web 3.0 Happen?

New technology generations are never born on a specific date. Even Web 1.0 didn’t happen on a
particular date.

You could say it began as soon as the first browser was released in a usable condition. But at that time
there weren’t many websites. You might, therefore, claim that it was born when websites began to
multiply. But realistically it didn’t happen until the first search engines appeared. However, you might
want to argue that it didn’t occur then, but when the first true e-commerce sites began working.

The point is that it slowly emerged. Web 2.0 with its social networks, multiplayer games, and big data
algorithms also took a while to come of age.

Web 3.0 will be the same.

Perhaps you will wake up one morning and realize that your browser embodies a set of bots that do
really useful things for you, that you have a Digital ID and that you can interact intelligently with the
Internet. When that happens you will have a right to declare: “Oh yes, this is Web 3.0.”

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Web 3.0 is slated to be the new paradigm in web interaction and will mark a fundamental change in how
developers create websites,
You have probably heard the term “web 3.0” floating around the internet. Simply put, web 3.0 is the
new phase of the internet’s evolution. The changes that web 3.0 is bringing to the internet is going to
take it to a whole new level. Computer scientists and Internet experts believe that these changes are
going to make the internet smarter and our lives easier. So, to understand these paradigm-shifting
changes, let’s first look at the evolution of the internet as we know it.

Web 1.0 -> Web 2.0 -> Web 3.0: The Evolution

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As we are going to see soon, the internet has evolved along with our needs and uses.

Web 1.0

Believe it or not, there used to be a version of the internet that existed before social media and video
streaming! This was a time before Google in the mid-to-late ‘90s. The internet used to be dominated by
AltaVista and Netscape. Back then the internet existed to only advertise their brick-and-mortar
companies. These websites were “read-only web,” meaning you were only allowed to search for
information and read it.

Most e-commerce websites are still web 1.0 in nature since the concept behind them is simple. Present
products to the customers and take money from the ones who are interested. These websites are
usually very smooth and fast, however, the level of user interaction is minimalistic.

Web 2.0

The next iteration of the internet was called the “web 2.0” or the “read-write” web. Now, users were
not just idle visitors, they could create their own content and upload it to a website. Starting roughly
around 2003 when the term was coined by Dale Dougherty, Vice President at O’Reilly Media, web 2.0
has taken over the world by storm. In just over a decade, it has completely redefined marketing and
business operations.
Instagram Influencers can make or break a brand by posting one single photo, Yelp reviewers can
destroy a restaurant by one single negative review. Audience reviews are critical when it comes to
buying decisions. According to a survey, 90 percent of customers reading online reviews before
purchasing and 88 percent of them trusting them as much as a personal recommendation.

Web 2.0’s main aim was to make the internet more democratic and make it as user-accessible as
possible.

Web 3.0

Chances are that you are pretty familiar with the concept of web 3.0 already. Does this seem familiar to
you?

Every time you buy something on Amazon, the website’s algorithm will look at the other items that
people who have purchased your product went on buy and then recommends that to you. So, think
about what is going on here. The website is learning from other users what your preferred choices can
be and then use it to recommend to you what you may like. In essence, the website itself is learning and
becoming more intelligent.

That, in a nutshell, is the very philosophy behind web 3.0. Web 1.0 was primarily driven by content that
came from the business or the institution for its customers. Web 2.0 took things a little bit further by
allowing users to upload and share their content on the website itself. Web 3.0 allows online
applications and websites to receive information that’s on the Web and give new information/data to
the users.

As Gian Gonzaga, Ph.D., senior director of research and development at the dating site eHarmony, says,
“The Web can give something back that was not previously known. Web 3.0 learns and understands
who you are and gives you something back.”
The 4 Properties of Web 3.0

To understand the nuances and subtleties of Web 3.0, let’s look at the four properties of Web 3.0:

Semantic Web

Artificial Intelligence

3D Graphics

Ubiquitous

Property #1: Semantic Web

One of the key elements of Web 3.0 is “semantic web.” Tim Berners-Lee coined the term for a web of
data that can be processed by machines. Berners-Lee originally expressed his vision of the Semantic
Web as follows:

“I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web
– the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A “Semantic Web”, which makes
this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy,
and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The “intelligent agents” people have
touted for ages will finally materialize.”

Ok, so what does that mean in simple language? What does semantics really mean?

What is the difference between “I love Bitcoin” and “I <3 Bitcoin”?

The syntax between the two sentences is different but the semantics between the two is identical.
Semantics deals with the meaning or the emotion conveyed by the data, and in our case, both of those
sentences express the same sentiment.

Semantic web along with artificial intelligence are the two cornerstones of web 3.0. The semantic web
will help teach the computer what the data means and that will evolve artificial intelligence that can
utilize that information. The core idea is to create a spiderweb of knowledge across the internet which
will help it to understand the meaning of words to generate, share, and connect content through search
and analysis.

Thanks to semantic metadata, Web 3.0 will help in greater connectivity between data. As a result, the
user experience evolves to another level of connectivity that leverages all the available information.

Property #2: Artificial Intelligence

Up next we have artificial intelligence. Currently, along with the blockchain technology, AI is the hottest
and the most disruptive tech out there. According to Wikipedia, “In the field of computer science,
artificial intelligence, sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines,
in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and other animals.” As such, artificial
intelligence will help machines become more intelligent to satisfy the needs of users.

AI will allow websites to filter and present users the best data possible. Currently in web 2.0, we have
started taking user opinions to help us understand the quality of a particular product/asset. Think of a
website like Rotten Tomatoes where users get to vote on a list of movies. Movies with a higher rating
are usually considered “good movies”. Lists like these help us get to the “good data” without going
through “bad data.”

Peer reviews, as we have already mentioned, is one of the biggest contributions of Web 2.0. However,
as we know, human recommendations are not incorruptible. A group of people may get together and
give positive ratings to an undeserving movie, boosting their ratings up. Artificial intelligence can learn
how to separate the good from the bad and gives us reliable data.

Property #3: 3D Graphics

Web 3.0 is going to change the future of the internet develops from the simple 2D web into a more
realistic three-dimensional cyberworld. The three-dimensional design is being used extensively in
websites and services in Web 3.0 such as online games, e-commerce, real-estate industry etc.

As alien as this concept sounds, the fact remains that there are thousands of people around this world
who are already interacting in this space. Think about online games like Second Life or World of
Warcraft where users are far more interested in the well-being of their online avatars than their real-
world selves.
Philip Rosedale, the founder of Second Life, believes that virtual identities will become as popular as
email addresses and mobile phones. This may seem far-fetched but remember that just 20 years ago in
1997, only a handful of people owned their email addresses. There is every chance that the amount of
people with 3D identities is going to be on the rise.

Property #4: Ubiquitous

Ubiquitous means the idea of existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time i.e.,
omnipresent. We have already got this feature in Web 2.0. Think of social media websites like
Instagram, users capture images on the camera and they can upload and distribute it online where they
become their intellectual property. The image thus becomes accessible everywhere aka ubiquitous.

Development of mobile devices and internet access will make the web 3.0 experience available
anywhere at any time. The internet will no longer only be on your desktop like with Web 1.0, or your
smartphone, like Web 2.0. It will be omnipotent. Web 3.0 may as well be called the web of everything
and everywhere, as most things around you are connected online aka Internet of Things.

We are slowly reaching this level, but we are steadily getting there.

Challenges of Web 3.0 Implementation

Let’s look at some of the biggest challenges of Web 3.0 implementation:

Vastness: The internet is HUGE. It contains billions of page and the SNOMED CT medical terminology
ontology alone includes 370,000 class names, and existing technology has not yet been able to eliminate
all semantically duplicated terms. Any reasoning system which can read all this data and understand its
functionality will have to be able to deal with vast amounts of data.

Vagueness: User queries are not really specific and can be extremely vague at the best of times. Fuzzy
logic is used to deal with vagueness.

Uncertainty: The internet deals with scores of uncertain values. For example, a patient might present a
set of symptoms that correspond to many different distinct diagnoses each with a different probability.
Probabilistic reasoning techniques are generally employed to address uncertainty.
Inconsistency: Inconsistent data can lead to logical contradiction and unpredictive analysis.

Deceit: While AI can help in filtering data, what if all the data provided is intentionally wrong and
misleading. Cryptography techniques are currently utilized to stop this problem.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Web 3.0

The Advantages of the Web 3.0:

Increased information linking: Semantic web will help in the connectivity of online data.

Efficient searching

Better marketing.

More efficient web browsing.

Effective communication.

Change human interaction.

The Disadvantages of Web 3.0:

Less advanced devices will not be able to handle Web 3.0.

Web 1.0 websites will seem that much more obsolete

It can be very complicated for newcomers to understand.

Conclusion

So, there you have it. We are on the verge of a real internet revolution. While it is true that there are
several challenges to Web 3.0 implementation, the sheer innovation that it can bring to our lives is truly
mind-boggling. While there is a lot of hype, we still need some practical use-cases of Web 3.0 to truly
understand the positive changes it can bring to our lives.

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What is Web 3.0 and How Will It Change the Internet?

Vlad Mosinegutu

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Last updated August 6, 2020

Communication technology seems to be the fastest field to evolve. And as we have passed from web 1.0
to web 2.0, naturally, we are already making a bolt towards web 3.0.

What we know today as the internet evolved over the second half of the 20th century. In those times, a
computer would take up an entire room to fit, although it performed just some basic operations.

The research on data communication for computer networks started in the ‘60s, and by 1974, the base
concept of the internet, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), was defined by
Vint Cerf, Yogen Dalal, and Carl Sunshine.

In 1993 the internet made up 1% of the global communication landscape. By 2000 it went up to 51%,
and more than 97% of the telecommunicated information by 2007.

Nowadays, the internet stands at the core of modern civilization. It brings communication between
people, companies, and companies and people to a superior level. And as it seems this isn’t even its final
form.

Table of Contents

Web 1.0 – 2.0 – 3.0

The Web 3.0 definition

Are we in Web 3.0?

Web 3.0 Blockchain

Key takeaways
Web 1.0 – 2.0 – 3.0

Evolution of internet

Web 1.0 comes into the picture

In the ‘90s internet, 1.0 entered the communication field as the ‘read-only web’. You could only search
for websites and read them. The websites were built using static HTML pages that only had the ability to
display information

At first, you would have to go through website directories. Only after 2000 you could make use of some
search engines with basic functionalities.

Believe it or not, the web 1.0 ‘era’ is the time when Yahoo was the MVP and Google was only dreaming
to become the next Yahoo.

When did web 2.0 begin?

A more interactive form of the internet started forming up at the end of the ‘90s.

CSS wasn’t a thing in the early 2000s, so developers had to write thousands of rows of PHP, HTML,
MySQL, and JS to customize a website a little more.

However, when the first version of Flash was launched in 1996, it revolutionized website design,
allowing developers to create various websites that contained complex media like web applications, all
kinds of games, videos, and images.

Flash did provide some missing functionalities for a while. But as the devices evolved, so did the notion
of acceptable load time, so it started bringing little value to modern browsers.

As more and more designers and developers realized the benefits of Web standards, HTML5 and CSS3
websites started replacing the Flash-driven websites.
But the appearance of Facebook in 2004 is the milestone where the transition between web 1.0 to web
2.0 is quite clear. And the major platform based on custom generated content like Reddit (2005) Twitter
(2006) Youtube (2007) that appeared afterward, reinforced the ‘read-write web’ forever.

The web wasn’t there only for businesses to show up on a website. The common internet user received
a voice. Thus reviews and testimonials became essential for marketing purposes.

Even more, since the emergence of smartphones in 2007, more and more people have got a fully
functioning internet-connected device in their pockets.

So now, in web 2.0 we create blogs, we share videos, we write reviews, and we make voice searches.
Furthermore, we use the internet at its full capacity from a tiny mobile device as a social tool, as an
encyclopedia, for buying and selling, or as a weapon against brands.

So what’s going on with Web 3.0?

As the internet evolved, scientists started to look forward to what the web can become. The first
concept related to web 3.0 comes from Berners-Lee in 1999 as the ‘semantic web’.

“I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web
– the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A ‘semantic web’, which makes
this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy
and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines. The ‘intelligent agents’ people have
touted for ages will finally materialize.”

But as time passes, web 3.0 starts going beyond just the ‘semantic web’, encompassing artificial
intelligence, interoperability, decentralization, and other matters.

The Web 3.0 definition

The Web 3.0 definition

Truth be told, there is no absolute definition of what web 3.0 means.

The semantic web

As mentioned before, in 1999 Bernes-Lee came with the concept of a ‘semantic web’ which should be
capable of analyzing all the data on the internet, allowing the machines to handle many tasks without
human intervention.

The intelligent web

However, the web 3.0 denomination appeared for the first time in 2006. The term was introduced by
John Markoff of the New York Times, and refers to a supposed third generation of Internet-based
services that collectively comprise what might be called ‘the intelligent Web.’

Generally, web 3.0 is thought to have the next 5 characteristics:

Semantic Web – Web 3.0 goes beyond focusing on keywords and numeric values, so that it understands
content like photo, video, or audio, and more complex associations between products, locations, and
certain behaviors.

Artificial Intelligence – Artificial intelligence software is able to decrypt natural language and understand
intention. It can also recognize real from fake and provide more reliable data.

3D Graphics – The third generation of the internet should integrate the use of 3D graphics and VR
technologies to provide results regarding real-life places, diverse products, and objects of interest.

Connectivity – Within web 3.0, information is more connected through semantic metadata, leveraging
all the available information.

Ubiquity – Data silos are eliminated. Every device should be connected to the network and content
operable by different applications.

The decentralized web

As the free to use web platform started taking a big share of the programmatic internet advertising,
users started to fear more and more for their personal data. And as the Blockchain and cryptocurrencies
emerged, the desire for decentralization grew more and more.

Therefore, the blockchain community is envisioning a web 3.0 which has the 5 characteristics mentioned
above, but more importantly, is a peer-to-peer decentralized network. The ‘decentralized web’ employs
the power of the blockchain technology to dissolve the need of centralized operators, working only with
immutable encrypted data.

Currently, the closest blockchain platform to web 3.0 is considered to be the Ethereum platform.

Are we in Web 3.0?

Are we in Web 3.0

Big tech companies are already implementing software that can analyze complex data and associate
diverse parameters. We are even able to go on Google Maps to street-view cities from the other side of
the planet. And we keep getting the feeling that the advertisers are listening to our conversation
through our devices.

But, now that most people are accustomed to a very social and interactive web, questions of whether or
not we’ve completely shifted to web 3.0 have been arising for years.

However, there is no reason to believe that we have left the web 2.0 zone.

So the short answer is ‘not yet’.

The artificial intelligence research is yet to give out a product that can be used efficiently on the
internet. Currently, many applications are limited to run only on one operating system (be it, iOS,
Android, Windows, or others).

And although VR is getting more developments, it still has a long way to go before being largely used.

However, we are quite close to web 3.0.

Web 3.0 Blockchain

Web 3.0 Blockchain

Inside the blockchain community, web 3.0 finds quite a few projects that approached the idea of a
decentralized internet backed by cryptocurrency. One of the most promising such projects is Elastos.

Web 3.0 example: Elastos

Elastos is a Web 3.0 Blockchain platform that utilizes a side chain structure for the blockchain. It is a
merge-mind sidechain on top of Bitcoin, therefore the BTC miners can mine Elastos at the same time.

The platform scales through the sidechain architecture, creating a fully distributed computer:

IDs operate on a dedicated sidechain;

Tokens operate on another sidechain;

And smart contracts have their own sidechain as well.

This way, Elastos is avoiding network clogs, executing sidechains that work in conjunction, and creating a
distributed supercomputer.

Elastos gives ownership for the IDs to every device that runs on it and every asset that is available on
dapps powered by it.

The Elastos runtime can work on a host operating system (Android or iOS), being able to run any dapp
coded in C++. It also disables HTTP and HTTPS calls, and network packets by default.

Data is carried through the Elastos carrier network which is authorized through the blockchain secured
IDs.

Key takeaways

The internet evolved over the second half of the 20th century.
In 1993 the internet made up 1% of the global communication landscape. By 2000 it went up to 51%,
and more than 97% of the telecommunicated information by 2007.

Web 1.0 entered the communication field in the ‘90s as the ‘read-only web’. You could only search for
websites and read them.

The apparition of Facebook in 2004 is the milestone where the transition between web 1.0 to web 2.0 is
quite clear. In the ‘read-write web’, users are able to write content on a website, not only read it.

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What is Web 3.0?

The Internet has changed dramatically since its inception. From Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to modern
social media, it has become a vital part of human interactions - and continues to evolve.

Web 3.0 is the next generation of Internet technology that heavily relies on the use of machine learning
and artificial intelligence (AI). It aims to create more open, connected, and intelligent websites and web
applications, which focus on using a machine-based understanding of data.

Through the use of AI and advanced machine learning techniques, Web 3.0 aims to provide more
personalized and relevant information at a faster rate. This can be achieved through the use of smarter
search algorithms and development in Big Data analytics.

Current websites typically have static information or user-driven content, such as forums and social
media. While this allows information to be published to a broad group of people, it may not cater to a
specific user’s need. A website should be able to tailor the information it provides to each individual
user, similar to the dynamism of real-world human communication.

Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, explained this idea of a
Semantic Web in 1999:

I have a dream for the Web [in which computers] become capable of analyzing all the data on the Web –
the content, links, and transactions between people and computers. A "Semantic Web," which makes
this possible, has yet to emerge, but when it does, the day-to-day mechanisms of trade, bureaucracy,
and our daily lives will be handled by machines talking to machines.

In Web 3.0, an ocean of information will be available to websites and applications, and they will be able
to understand and use that data in a way that is meaningful to the individual user.

A brief history of the evolution of the Internet

Websites and web applications have changed dramatically over the last decades. They have evolved
from static sites to data-driven sites that users can interact with and change.

Web 1.0

The original Internet was based on what is now known as Web 1.0. The term was coined in 1999 by
author and web designer Darci DiNucci, when distinguishing between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. Back in the
early 1990s, websites were built using static HTML pages that only had the ability to display information
– there was no way for users to change the data.

Web 2.0

That all changed during the late 1990s when the shift toward a more interactive Internet started taking
form. With Web 2.0, users were able to interact with websites through the use of databases, server-side
processing, forms, and social media.

This brought forth a change from a static to a more dynamic web. Web 2.0 brought an increased
emphasis on user-generated content and interoperability between different sites and applications. Web
2.0 was less about observation and more about participation. By the mid-2000s, most websites made
the transition to Web 2.0.

The future

When looking at the history of the Internet, the evolution of a more semantically intelligent web makes
sense. Data was first statically presented to users. Then users could interact with that data dynamically.
Now all of that data will be used by algorithms to improve user experience and make the Web more
personalized and familiar.

Web 3.0, while not fully defined, could leverage peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies like blockchain, open-
source software, virtual reality, Internet of Things (IoT), and more.

Currently, many applications are limited to run only on one operating system. Web 3.0 could enable
applications to be more device-agnostic, meaning they would be able to run on many different types of
hardware and software without any added development costs.

Web 3.0 also aims to make the Internet more open and decentralized. In the current framework, users
have to rely on network and cellular providers that surveil the information going through their systems.
With the advent of distributed ledger technologies, that soon might change, and users could take back
ownership of their data.

What makes Web 3.0 superior to its predecessors?

No central point of control: Since middlemen are removed from the equation, user data will no longer
be controlled by them. This reduces the risk of censorship by governments or corporations and cuts
down the effectiveness of Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks.

Increased information interconnectivity: As more products become connected to the Internet, larger
data sets provide algorithms with more information to analyze. This can help them provide more
accurate information that accommodates the specific needs of the individual user.
More efficient browsing: When using search engines, finding the best result used to be quite
challenging. However, over the years, they have become better at finding semantically-relevant results
based on search context and metadata. This results in a more convenient web browsing experience that
can help anyone find the exact information they need with relative ease.

Web 2.0 also introduced social tagging systems, but those can be manipulated. With smarter algorithms,
manipulated results can be filtered by AI.

Improved advertising and marketing: No one likes being bombarded with online ads. However, if the ads
are relevant to one's interests and needs, they could be useful instead of being an annoyance. Web 3.0
aims to improve advertising by leveraging smarter AI systems, and by targeting specific audiences based
on consumer data.

Better customer support: When it comes to websites and web applications, customer service is key for a
smooth user experience. Due to the massive costs, though, many web services that become successful
are unable to scale their customer service operations accordingly. Through the use of smarter chatbots
that can talk to multiple customers simultaneously, users can enjoy a superior experience when dealing
with support agents.

Closing thoughts

The evolution of the Internet has been a long journey and will surely continue towards further
iterations. With the massive explosion of available data, websites and applications have the ability to
transition to a web that provides a considerably better experience to an increasing number of users
around the world.

While there is no concrete definition for Web 3.0 yet, it is already set in motion by innovations in other
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The birth of the internet is considered to be 1 January 1983 – since its inception, the internet has
rapidly evolved and spread across the world to impact all aspects of our lives. How will its current
development phase, labelled as Web 3.0, have an impact on higher education in particular?

Web 3.0 overview

Web 3.0 is sometimes referred to as the ‘semantic web’, ‘3D web’ or ‘spatial web’. It is about using new
technology to add meaning to content and developing methods to interact with our environment. In the
semantic web, content will find you. Rather than you seeking information based on, say, keywords, your
activities and interests will determine how information finds you and the format you need, and display it
within your preferred channel.

Figure showing theoretical vs. real web evolution: researchgate.net

Web 3.0 builds on earlier phases:

Web 1.0 can be considered as ‘read only’ – information is published to a website where users can read
and search for information, but there is no opportunity to easily share or interact with it.

Web 2.0 can be thought of as ‘read and write’ – it provides social networking tools such as blogs and
wikis. It focuses on its ability to bring people together, share knowledge and facilitate communication. It
also facilitates collaborative learning and teamwork.

The problem with Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 is that information is chaotic and unstructured, limiting the
ability to retrieve relevant and accurate information. Web 3.0 promises to solve these problems.

Web 3.0 technologies

The following is a brief summary of some of the key developments that will change the way users find
information.

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is self-learning programmes that can learn and evolve on their own, for example,
track the habits of users and provide search results that suit their preferences.

Personalisation

Users will be able to enter their preferences and interests, and the computer will customise and provide
information that fit these criteria – user profiles will function like a virtual avatar that represents them
and their interests online.

Internet of things

The internet of things is the connection of everyday devices to the internet. For example, sensor-
equipped and networked devices such as office equipment, printers and vehicles. It means that users
will be able to connect to the internet and manage information from anywhere.

Virtualisation

Users can interact with their environment using virtual environments and augmented reality – search
results are not restricted to text-only inputs – you can search by inputs via 3D objects or images. The
physical world can be interacted with interfaces such as smart glasses and voice where the digital and
physical layers are merged.

Decentralised computing

With Web 3.0, computing power is not confined to a few central servers that provide content. Instead,
computing power is shared across multiple servers. An example of this is blockchain technologies where
information is distributed across many devices. This means that information can be held very securely
and is not dependent on a single provider.

Graph showing evolution of the web

Graph from article on what is Web 3.0 and why it matters

The future of Web 3.0

Today’s web browsers have limited capacity for discovering connections among pieces of information
that might be useful or valuable. A standard Google search yields hundreds of results, many of which are
irrelevant or marginally relevant.

With Web 3.0, standards will create structured online content using tags or fields that enable a browser
to identify and understand the meaning of information more readily. This requires the translation of
online information into ‘micro content’.

For this to work, content managers will need to add metadata descriptions that give meaning to website
content and describe the structure of existing knowledge about it. As a result, content will be more
efficiently searchable and interconnected. There are various standards that can be used to tag data such
as RDFa and JSON-LD.

As well as tagging content there are various approaches to creating relationships between content –
known as ontologies. Protégé, developed by Stanford University, is a free ontology editor that can
create these connections use the OWL 2 Web Ontology Language .

A simple example of an ontology is shown in the figure below – in this case it shows how meaning can
be given to content related to different types of drink.
Example ontology diagram

Example ontological hierarchy

Web 3.0 will have natural language search capabilities that will enable users to ask a complete question
rather than phrases in isolation. At the moment, search engines train us to become good keyword
searchers – we dumb down our intelligence so that it will be natural for a computer. The big shift will be
to have a computer handle expressions that are natural for the human.

Web 3.0 and education – benefits

With Web 3.0, the ability to find information more easily and quickly has a number of benefits, but also
disadvantages. First, the benefits:

Reduced expense as machines will be internet-connected and provide access to knowledge.

Changes in teaching – teachers will be able to develop engaging and more complex assignments that are
supported by a variety of resources. Students will develop more independence that will free teachers to
tutor individuals or small groups. There will be a shift from students consuming teacher-provided
content to student creation of content.

Learning – students will spend less time gathering and integrating knowledge. They will be able to learn
anywhere and anytime if they have access to the internet.

Knowledge construction – search engines will produce a report that draws from many sources. The
report will also compare and contrast the information presented and allude to different arguments as
well as alert users to related topics and resources.

Smart searches – customised search capabilities will yield only information tailored to the user,
preventing frustration and saving time. Search engines will include lecture notes, resources, videos, blog
articles etc.

Personal learning network maintenance – personal learning agents will search for information related to
a learning goal and only report relevant information. Location-based services will send appropriate
information.

Personal educational administration – use semantic web to describe courses and degrees so that it will
be easy to transfer credits, and students can easily determine universities that will give them the
knowledge they seek. E-learning and just-in-time learning become commonplace. People can
collaborate and interact with dispersed individuals. Educational content can be used and reused with
requiring permission.
Web 3.0 and education – issues

Impact on student learning – students spend less time gathering information, but these are important
skills. Presenting students with information that has already been synthesised eliminates the need for
critical thinking, evaluation and argument. For example, when calculators were introduced it was
expected to free students from manual calculations so they could concentrate on the solution. This is
true for students working on advanced levels of subject knowledge, but if introduced too soon, they
impede the development of basic mathematical skills.

Tagging information – who is going to tag content and add additional coding to web pages? This takes
significant time and resource.

Developer bias – it is likely that developer bias and perspective will go into tagging information. Even
subtle tweaks could eliminate some relevant information or include information that is important only
to the developer.

Information security and privacy – user preferences and online behaviour can be inaccurately
interpreted and used to filter their information in ways the users did not intend.

Censorship and privacy issues – a large amount of personal data will be on the internet. Data scraping
means data from web pages can be extracted and used for articles that reach completely different
conclusions than intended by the author and without giving credit to the author. If content is not coded,
it may be ignored by Web 3.0 browsers and not become part of the content knowledge of a particular
subject area.

Conclusion

Web 3.0 promises to allow users to find information and connect with it in more meaningful and
efficient ways, but at what cost to the way students develop skills in researching and understanding
information for themselves? Being aware of the pros and cons of Web 3.0 is the starting point to
understand how we can take advantage of the benefits while guarding against the potential
disadvantages of deskilling students and reducing their ability to discern the value of information for
themselves.

Further information

Web 3.0 and Web 2.0 technologies in higher educational institute: methodological concept towards a
framework development for adoption

What is Web 3.0 and why it matters

The spatial web and web 3.0 – what business leaders should know about the next era of computing

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What technology benefits more than 3 Billion people for 80% of their waking hours every single day?
Web 2.0.

Web 2.0, coined as such by O’Reilly and others between 1999 and 2004, moved the world on from static
desktop web pages designed for information consumption and served from expensive servers to
interactive experiences and user-generated content that brought us Uber, AirBnB, Facebook and
Instagram. The rise of Web 2.0 was largely driven by three core layers of innovation: mobile, social and
cloud.

With the launch of the iPhone in 2007, mobile internet access drastically broadened both the user-base
and the usage of the Web: we moved from dialling up to the internet a few hours a day at home at our
desktops to an “always connected” state — the web browser, mobile apps and personal notifications
were now in everyone’s pocket.

Until Friendster, MySpace and then Facebook in 2004, the Internet was a largely dark and anonymous
place. These social networks coaxed users into good behaviour and content generation including
recommendations and referrals: from persuading us to share photos online with specific friend groups;
to entrusting unknown travelers with our homes on AirBnB; and even getting into a stranger’s car with
Uber.

Cloud commoditised the production and maintenance of internet pages & applications: new cloud
providers aggregated and refined mass-produced personal computer hardware within numerous, vast
data centers located around the world. Companies could shift from buying and maintaining their own
expensive and dedicated infrastructure upfront to renting storage, compute power and management
tools on the go. Millions of entrepreneurial experiments could benefit from low-cost resources that
scaled as their businesses grew.

While the Web 2.0 wave is still bearing fruit, we are also seeing the first shoots of growth emerge from
the next large paradigm shift in internet applications, logically entitled Web 3.0. As hard to believe as it
might seem, Web 3.0 (originally coined the Semantic Web by Tim Berners-Lee, the Web’s original
inventor), is an even more fundamental disruption, one that in time will leave everything hitherto in its
shade. It is a leap forward to open, trustless and permissionless networks.

‘Open’ in that they are built from open source software built by an open and accessible community of
developers and executed in full view of the world.

‘Trustless’ in that the network itself allows participants to interact publicly or privately without a trusted
third party.

‘Permissionless’ in that anyone, both users and suppliers,can participate without authorisation from a
governing body.

The ultimate outcome of these new open, trustless and permissionless networks is the possibility to
coordinate & incentivise the long tail of work, service, data and content providers that are the
disenfranchised backdrop to many of the worlds most acute challenges such as health, food, finance and
sustainability.

Where Web 2.0 was driven by the advent of mobile, social and cloud, Web 3.0 is built largely on three
new layers of technological innovation: edge computing, decentralised data networks and artificial
intelligence.

While in Web 2.0 recently commoditised personal computer hardware was repurposed in data centers,
the shift to Web 3.0 is spreading the data center out to the edge, and often right into our hands. Large
legacy data centres are being supplemented by a multitude of powerful computing resources spread
across phones, computers, appliances, sensors and vehicles which are forecast to produce and consume
160 (!) times more data in 2025 as compared to 2010.¹

Decentralised data networks are making it possible for these data generators (from an individual’s
personal health data, to a farmer’s crop data, or a car’s location & performance data) to sell or barter
their data without losing ownership control, giving up privacy or reliance on third-party middlemen. As
such, decentralised data networks can bring the entire long tail of data generators in to the emerging
‘data economy’.

Artificial intelligence & Machine learning algorithms have become powerful enough to create useful,
indeed sometimes life-saving, predictions and actions. When layered on top of new decentralised data
structures giving access to a wealth of data that would be the envy of today’s tech giants, the potential
applications go far beyond targeted advertising into areas like precision materials, drug design and
climate modelling.

Web 3.0 enables a future where distributed users and machines are able to interact with data, value and
other counterparties via a substrate of peer-to-peer networks without the need for third parties. The
result: a composable human-centric & privacy preserving computing fabric for the next wave of the web.
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So much for the technology but what difference will this make to the individuals and society as a whole?
And how could this be even greater than the impact today’s applications have had on our families,
businesses and governments? It has been said² that the characteristic which sets humankind apart is our
ability to organise ourselves in the pursuit of a commonly envisioned goal. Thus it is highly instructive to
cast our minds back in time / history, to identify four major social & technological stages in human
collaboration:

In Villages, people could trade value, information & work with the small group of counterparties they
already knew — their set of counterparties was limited by geographic proximity & personal trust bonds.
The small scale meant individuals frequently had multiple roles in society e.g. farmer, fireman, warrior
and father. Consequently, transactions were focused on food, security and leisure, and included little
coordination beyond largely self-sustaining families.

In Urbanised Cities, the set of counterparties with whom people could trade value, information & work
increased significantly. It became economically viable to launch new specialised businesses, produce
accounting at the level of that business, and rely on others to produce all the remaining goods and
services required by the city’s population. While some geographic restrictions remained, the larger
spatial playing field and higher population density led to much wider coordination of skills across
individuals.

Web 1.0 & Web 2.0 radically shrunk the latency and cost at which people & businesses could trade
value, information & work with geographically distributed counterparties they didn’t necessarily know,
via trusted intermediaries. Truly global businesses started to form, as the reach of counterparties
expanded by a few orders of magnitude. At its heart, today’s internet allows global coordination via a
set of intermediaries, providing a digital social trust layer for strangers to interact: from Facebook, to
eBay & AirBnB. Unfortunately we’ve become overly dependent on these platforms, and when they
move from “attract” to “extract”, their users (whether individuals or businesses) suffer via higher fees or
platform risk (i.e. the platform has the power to destroy your business running on it). While today’s
interactions might magically and reliably take place on a global scale, it is predominantly the $200Bn
digital advertising business³, with ‘we the users’ as the product, which fuels this machine. It is now also
broadly understood that these platforms of the ‘post truth’ world have created echo-chambers within
which unfiltered and unashamedly populist or indeed fallacious claims reverberate and reinforce —
sometimes with chaotic consequences.

With Web 3.0, women, men, machines & businesses will be able to trade value, information & work with
global counterparties they don’t know or yet explicitly trust, without an intermediary. The most
important evolution enabled by Web3.0 is the minimisation of the trust required for coordination on a
global scale. This marks a move towards trusting all constituents of a network implicitly rather than
needing to trust each individual explicitly and/or seeking to achieve trust extrinsically.

Web 3.0 will fundamentally expand the scale & scope of both human and machine interactions far
beyond what we can imagine today. These interactions, ranging from seamless payments to richer
information flows, to trusted data transfers, will become possible with a vastly increased range of
potential counterparties. Web 3.0 will enable us to interact with any individual or machine in the world,
without having to pass through fee-charging middlemen. This shift will enable a whole new wave of
previously unimaginable businesses and business models: from global co-operatives to decentralised
autonomous organisations and self-sovereign data marketplaces.

This matters because:

Societies can become more efficient by disintermediating industries, reducing rent-seeking third parties
and returning this value directly back to the users and suppliers in a network.

Organisations can be intrinsically more resilient to change through their new mesh of more adaptable
peer-to-peer communication and governance ties between participants.

Humans, enterprises and machines can share more data with more privacy & security assurances

We can future-proof entrepreneurial & investment activities by virtually eradicating the platform
dependency risks we observe today

We can own our own data & digital footprints by using provable digital scarcity of data & tokenised
digital assets

Through ‘modern mutual’ ownership and governance of these new decentralised systems of intelligence
and sophisticated & dynamic economic incentives, network participants can collaborate to solve
previously intractable or ‘thinly spread’ problems

The forthcoming wave of Web 3.0 goes far beyond the initial use case of cryptocurrencies. Through the
richness of interactions now possible and the global scope of counterparties available, Web 3.0 will
cryptographically connect data from individuals, corporations and machines, with efficient machine
learning algorithms, leading to the rise of fundamentally new markets and associated business models.
The result is akin to a “return to the global village” — daily immersion in the human-centric & highly
personalised interactions from which we used to benefit, yet now delivered at the global scale of the
internet and supporting an ever-increasing myriad of human and machine skills specialisations.

¹ Ocean Protocol research

² Yuval Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, 2011

³ Research and Markets Global Online Advertising Market Report and Forecast 2019–2024

Thanks to Julien Thevenard.

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Introduction

We all have heard about the term “Web 3.0”. It is the new phase of the internet’s evolution. This new
phase is going to bring the internet to a whole new level. These changes are going to make our lives
easier.

Evolution

Now let’s discuss about the evolution of the internet.

The internet has been evolving according to our needs and uses.

Let’s first discuss about Web 1.0.

Web 0.1

In the mid-to-late ‘90’s the internet version which existed used to be dominated by AltaVista.

At that time the websites were “read-only Web”, this means that you were only allowed to search for
information and read it.

The concept behind Web 1.0 is simple, that’s why many e-commerce websites are still Web 1.0 in
nature.

These websites are usually smooth in use and are fast in speed. However, the level of user-interaction is
minimalistic.

Web 0.1

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 was the next iteration of the internet.

It was also called “read-write Web”. This means that now the visitors instead of just reading
information, they could create and uploads their own content on any website.

Web 2.0 was started in 2003 by Dale Dougherty, Vice President at O’ Reilly Media.

The main aim of Web 2.0 was to make the internet more democratic and make it user-accessible.

Web 0.2

Web 3.0

Whenever we shop for any product online, the website recommends some products.

This algorithm works like this: When we purchase any product the recommendations shown to us are
actually those products which the people purchased after purchasing the product that we are currently
purchasing.

This means that the website itself learns from the other users what your choices can be.

Unlike Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, Web 3.0 allows you not only to read and write but it also allows online
application and websites to receive information from Web and to give new information/data to the
users.

“It can give something back that was not previously known”.
Web 0.3

Properties of Web 3.0

Web 3.0 has the following properties,

Semantic Web

Artificial Intelligence

3D Graphics

Ubiquitous

The Advantages of the Web 3.0

Increase in connectivity of data.

Efficient Searching.

Better marketing.

More efficient web browsing.

Effective communication.

Change human interaction.

Disadvantages of the Web 3.0

Devices which are not so advanced will not be able to handle Web 3.0.

Websites which are based on Web 1.0 will seem more obsolete.

It can be complicated to understand for the new users.

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