Technologies are evolving gradually over the time. Starting with the most basic and progressing to the most advanced and complex. Aside from that, their applications and utility to humans are expanding. They can completely make our lives easier with each advancement they can make.
The internet has evolved over the last few decades and is now a part of these cutting-edge technologies. The internet evolved from a very simple and static form to a very interactive and responsive one. The internet is constantly evolving, and there it is! Something is on the way that will undoubtedly change the way we use the internet!
The Web 3.0!
Web 3.0 has recently become the most talked-about topic on the internet. This new version of the internet is said to be the most intelligent and advanced, with the goal of creating a more connected and efficient web experiences.
Before we can understand what web 3.0 is all about, we should first go over the previous two versions of the web and see how they differ from web 3.0 and what makes them differ from each other. Let's take a look at some web history.
The Evolution Of The Internet: Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0.
Web 1.0-[read-only]
The concept of this version was "read-only web" type of web. Meaning, users are only allowed to read the results from their searched topic. This version can only gives some info with no interactions and communications involved.
The best example of this version are e-commerce websites where the owner only presented a catalogue or brochure kind of web page to a customer. This version is much faster and smooth due to the fact it only presenting minimalistic info.
Web 2.0- [read-write]
This version is known as Web 2.0, or "Read-Write Web." When compared to the previous version, this is far more interactive than web 1.0 due to this concept.
This is the version we are currently using. Users are not only reading posts or pages, but they can also interact with other users and contribute to the websites. In the same way that Vloggers post their videos on the YouTube Video streaming platform.
This era can provide its users with the ability to interact freely. This aims to provide other users with a democratic way of interacting, similar to how we make articles here on read.cash and comments to other noise.cash users. Facebook and Blogger are just a few development of a "Read-Write" or the Web 2.0.
Web 3.0 -[read-write-execute]
And there you go. Web 3.0 is the most intelligent version among of all versions as what I've told earlier. This version has the read-write-execute concept which is it involved machine-learning and artificial intelligence capabilities to a better user experience, exciting and personal.
Have you ever searched product in a online shopping applications and noticed those recommended products saying that "These products are also bought by someone"? You can also notice those recommendation presented by the websites or application saying "These products are frequently bought by these users". That means, the algorithm of that website learned something from the other users and trying to recommend those products to you by itself. And that's one of the example of how web 3.0 works. The Web 3.0 is gathering and learning data from its users and provide other info and data to other users.
Just like what senior director of research and development Gian Gonzaga 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.”
Anyway, here are some properties of web 3.0 that makes itself more advance from the previous eras.
One of the web 3.0 properties included the Semantic Web concept. According to simplea.com,
"The Semantic Web is the knowledge graph formed by combining connected, Linked Data with intelligent content to facilitate machine understanding and processing of content, metadata, and other information objects at scale."
For example, the sentence "I love you very much" and "I <3 u very much" are pretty different isn't it? But the same with interpretation. If you search these two sentences with the web 1.0 and 2.0 version, it can create confusions and sometimes misinfo results due to the characters involved. In web 3.0 with the help of Semantic Web concept with artificial intelligence, these two expressions can be understand by computers as one despite of the different characters used.
The other property is the Artificial Intelligence. This property can help any websites to give a reliable data without using a center-man or some manipulator. For instance, in watching a videos in a streaming sites, sometimes we are relying on the most reviewed and recommended movies provided by the site itself. But sometimes, these are manipulated by the other users or those center-man.
Artificial intelligence will give you the best and recommended movies you should watch based on the data it learned and gathered from other users. Using artificial intelligence, all the data are pretty reliable and away from manipulators.
Last property is the 3D Graphics.
Aside from the Artificial intelligence, web 3.0 comes with some high graphic and high definitions images.
We all have that email and accounts that we are using as of the moments that includes our identities and personal informations. Also, those usernames we are using that's serves our identity in able to be recognise by other users.
In web 3.0, identity and avatars turned into 3 dimensional. If you are familiar with Virtual Reality games, that's how web 3.0 works. You can interact with other users using your 3D avatars in a Virtual Space.
So there it is! We are compared the three era of the internet. Indeed! The internet is evolving and a chance to feel the taste of a future is possible!
Final Thoughts
The smart people's concepts and plans to make it happen are in the works. We may not be able to experience them today, but someday, perhaps decades from now, we will be ready to experience that evolved version of the internet.
There are a lot of challenges before they can implement that. But who knows,? Just trust the process and believe on them..So what can you say about web 3.0? Let me know in the comment section..
Web 3 is primarily more immersive in nature and provided better alternatives of entertainment that may not be possible for many people in the real world. An alternative world where anything is literally possible, only limited by one's imagination