by Anupam Biswas

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Web1 was designed to serve as a “hyperlinked information system “ A vast collection of information comes into an online display of computers across the globe that users can browse through by clicking on hyperlinked images and text.

Thirty years on, three billion people now can access a more extensive and faster Internet powered by massive data centers. The method we browse is much the same.

In the beginning, the Internet was not a mainstream technology used mainly by academics. The widespread acceptance of the Internet began just five years later and was facilitated by browsers like Mosaic and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Before that, there were just some content creators on Web 1.0 with a vast majority of content users.

We call it the read-only mood. In Web 1.0, users could only see information on the Internet, not making any changes or giving any inputs from the user ends.

The introduction of Web 2.0 happened for the first time in history, and any person could publish their work online. With the removal of barriers, internet users increased, and usage grew. The Internet offered something for everyone. Web 2.0 is also called the participative social Web. It is read and write, and it does not refer to a modification to any technical specification but to modify the way Web pages are designed and used.

Smartphones transform us from sitting for a few moments every day at our laptops and computers to “always connected.” The apps and notifications dominate our lives.

Smartphones shift us from spending only a few minutes every day in front of our computers and into “always connected.” Notifications and apps rule our lives.

Networks grow exponentially helpful as they grow in users. You sign up to WhatsApp to chat with your friends, and mom joins Whatsapp for speaking with you; colleagues create a Whatsapp group for collaboration. In a matter of minutes, everyone is using WhatsApp, and it is impossible to leave.

The bottom line is that we are not paying for the price in dollars but rather our private information and contents. They are used to sell, extract and feed to algorithms that snare our attention so that we can spend more time and money on the Internet. If we do not pay for the service we are using, we are the product, and someone else is purchasing us.

Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon control our communications and search media, as well as data and content. Open forums have changed to a closed garden.

Attention is now the Internet’s main currency. Sites compete for it by creating algorithmically-generated loops of content that you cannot stop scrolling through and headlines that you cannot put down.

The users make videos and content for Facebook Youtube for more shares, likes, and comments since it attracts the attention of others and increases their reach. Low or mediocre content has a more viral effect, spreading over millions.

We all receive an individual diet according to what stimulates us the most on the Internet. Many opinions have evolved into various realities. If your view of reality is different from mine, then the price of Facebook’s shares will increase. The bigger the flame more intense the higher profits. Social media brings people together across the globe to cut it down, and it is excellent for business.

Platforms have control over all the content you upload to the Internet. That includes the details you put in your profile, the information on the habits you make, and the images, videos tracks, and status update that you upload. All content you upload on the platform’s site is the property of the forum.

Everything occurs not because of but at the mercy of platforms. They control your work and your followers, your keywords, even your phone conversation to show you relevant ads that might trigger you to buy the product. Therefore, you will have no choice but to continue spinning around in their profit-making machine.

The early pioneers of the Internet did not intend to make it centralized. However, they overlooked the most fundamental challenge to human social organization, the issue of trust.

In the pre-civilized era, this meant that to be safe, you only interact directly with your relatives and friends. Do not trade information and values with strangers. If I do not know you, I will not deal with you, which is the most stable number of interpersonal relationships that the human brain can manage.

Web 3.0 is being called the Internet of value. Blockchain technology allows for an entirely new type of Web: a human-to-human economic network that enables strangers to exchange currencies, assets, and precious information. No institutions charging fees, establishing terms, or asking questions to make it possible.

It is the process of advancing the nature of the Web’s use and interaction that includes transforming the Web into an information database. Experts believe that in web3, the user will be the owner of the content. A decentralized organization will control the business called a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization), removing the need for top managers and CEOs. Since your digital ID is not linked to your identity on web3, you can remain unnoticed on the Web and still live your everyday life.

Semantic Web

The next evolution of Web 3.0 involves the Semantic Web. Semantic Web enhances technologies used on the Internet to make, share and link content via search and analysis, based on the ability to understand the meaning of words, not keywords or watch time analytics.

Artificial Intelligence

Combining this ability with the natural language processing in Web 3.0, computers can recognize data like humans to deliver quicker and more accurate results. They get more competent to meet the demands of users.

3D Graphics and Metaverse

The 3-D design is extensively used in websites and services that are part of Web 3.0. Museum guides, computer games, e-commerce, geospatial contexts, etc., are just a few examples of 3D graphics.

Web 3.0 will be the Internet of Read-write and execute. Our Apps will be replaced with dApps ( Decentralized Applications ). Now we are familiar with Ed-Tech, Fin-Tech, eCommerce. Be prepared to become familiar with new words in everyday lives, such as The De-Fi ( Decentralized Finance ), NFT (Non-Fungible Token ), SFT ( Semi Fungible Token ).

It is not just about crypto in the way we have it in our minds, as Bitcoin and Bitcoin Ethirium could be the modern-day currency for cross-border transactions. Numerous businesses and financial institutions might begin accepting crypto payments.

In the past ten years, who would have thought they would be accepting GPay, PayTM, PhonePe as the leading platforms for transactions. An excellent example of web3 applications can be Obsidian to Whatsapp, Odyessy, LBRY for YouTube, and others.

Different people have different opinions regarding this issue. Some believe it is a hoax invented by traders who trade in cryptocurrency, while others believe it is a fact. In my opinion, blockchain and web3 remain at an early stage of development and still have a long way to go.

Creating an unregulated social media platform, like YouTube or Facebook, allows users to post any data but cannot erase it and is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, there is freedom of expression; however, on the other hand, there could be users who publish explicit content that no one can remove. This can be very dangerous without verifying if the material includes explicit content via machine.

To be with time, we must accept the transformation and be familiar with the new technologies relevant to the future world.

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Anupam Biswas

01/02/2022

Kolkata, India

by Anupam Biswas

Listen Audio File : Spotify Apple TuneIn

Web1 was designed to serve as a “hyperlinked information system “ A vast collection of information comes into an online display of computers across the globe that users can browse through by clicking on hyperlinked images and text.

Thirty years on, three billion people now can access a more extensive and faster Internet powered by massive data centers. The method we browse is much the same.

In the beginning, the Internet was not a mainstream technology used mainly by academics. The widespread acceptance of the Internet began just five years later and was facilitated by browsers like Mosaic and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Before that, there were just some content creators on Web 1.0 with a vast majority of content users.

We call it the read-only mood. In Web 1.0, users could only see information on the Internet, not making any changes or giving any inputs from the user ends.

The introduction of Web 2.0 happened for the first time in history, and any person could publish their work online. With the removal of barriers, internet users increased, and usage grew. The Internet offered something for everyone. Web 2.0 is also called the participative social Web. It is read and write, and it does not refer to a modification to any technical specification but to modify the way Web pages are designed and used.

Smartphones transform us from sitting for a few moments every day at our laptops and computers to “always connected.” The apps and notifications dominate our lives.

Smartphones shift us from spending only a few minutes every day in front of our computers and into “always connected.” Notifications and apps rule our lives.

Networks grow exponentially helpful as they grow in users. You sign up to WhatsApp to chat with your friends, and mom joins Whatsapp for speaking with you; colleagues create a Whatsapp group for collaboration. In a matter of minutes, everyone is using WhatsApp, and it is impossible to leave.

The bottom line is that we are not paying for the price in dollars but rather our private information and contents. They are used to sell, extract and feed to algorithms that snare our attention so that we can spend more time and money on the Internet. If we do not pay for the service we are using, we are the product, and someone else is purchasing us.

Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon control our communications and search media, as well as data and content. Open forums have changed to a closed garden.

Attention is now the Internet’s main currency. Sites compete for it by creating algorithmically-generated loops of content that you cannot stop scrolling through and headlines that you cannot put down.

The users make videos and content for Facebook Youtube for more shares, likes, and comments since it attracts the attention of others and increases their reach. Low or mediocre content has a more viral effect, spreading over millions.

We all receive an individual diet according to what stimulates us the most on the Internet. Many opinions have evolved into various realities. If your view of reality is different from mine, then the price of Facebook’s shares will increase. The bigger the flame more intense the higher profits. Social media brings people together across the globe to cut it down, and it is excellent for business.

Platforms have control over all the content you upload to the Internet. That includes the details you put in your profile, the information on the habits you make, and the images, videos tracks, and status update that you upload. All content you upload on the platform’s site is the property of the forum.

Everything occurs not because of but at the mercy of platforms. They control your work and your followers, your keywords, even your phone conversation to show you relevant ads that might trigger you to buy the product. Therefore, you will have no choice but to continue spinning around in their profit-making machine.

The early pioneers of the Internet did not intend to make it centralized. However, they overlooked the most fundamental challenge to human social organization, the issue of trust.

In the pre-civilized era, this meant that to be safe, you only interact directly with your relatives and friends. Do not trade information and values with strangers. If I do not know you, I will not deal with you, which is the most stable number of interpersonal relationships that the human brain can manage.

Web 3.0 is being called the Internet of value. Blockchain technology allows for an entirely new type of Web: a human-to-human economic network that enables strangers to exchange currencies, assets, and precious information. No institutions charging fees, establishing terms, or asking questions to make it possible.

It is the process of advancing the nature of the Web’s use and interaction that includes transforming the Web into an information database. Experts believe that in web3, the user will be the owner of the content. A decentralized organization will control the business called a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization), removing the need for top managers and CEOs. Since your digital ID is not linked to your identity on web3, you can remain unnoticed on the Web and still live your everyday life.

Semantic Web

The next evolution of Web 3.0 involves the Semantic Web. Semantic Web enhances technologies used on the Internet to make, share and link content via search and analysis, based on the ability to understand the meaning of words, not keywords or watch time analytics.

Artificial Intelligence

Combining this ability with the natural language processing in Web 3.0, computers can recognize data like humans to deliver quicker and more accurate results. They get more competent to meet the demands of users.

3D Graphics and Metaverse

The 3-D design is extensively used in websites and services that are part of Web 3.0. Museum guides, computer games, e-commerce, geospatial contexts, etc., are just a few examples of 3D graphics.

Web 3.0 will be the Internet of Read-write and execute. Our Apps will be replaced with dApps ( Decentralized Applications ). Now we are familiar with Ed-Tech, Fin-Tech, eCommerce. Be prepared to become familiar with new words in everyday lives, such as The De-Fi ( Decentralized Finance ), NFT (Non-Fungible Token ), SFT ( Semi Fungible Token ).

It is not just about crypto in the way we have it in our minds, as Bitcoin and Bitcoin Ethirium could be the modern-day currency for cross-border transactions. Numerous businesses and financial institutions might begin accepting crypto payments.

In the past ten years, who would have thought they would be accepting GPay, PayTM, PhonePe as the leading platforms for transactions. An excellent example of web3 applications can be Obsidian to Whatsapp, Odyessy, LBRY for YouTube, and others.

Different people have different opinions regarding this issue. Some believe it is a hoax invented by traders who trade in cryptocurrency, while others believe it is a fact. In my opinion, blockchain and web3 remain at an early stage of development and still have a long way to go.

Creating an unregulated social media platform, like YouTube or Facebook, allows users to post any data but cannot erase it and is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, there is freedom of expression; however, on the other hand, there could be users who publish explicit content that no one can remove. This can be very dangerous without verifying if the material includes explicit content via machine.

To be with time, we must accept the transformation and be familiar with the new technologies relevant to the future world.

Audio File : Spotify Apple TuneIn

Anupam Biswas

01/02/2022

Kolkata, India