Today, when half of the world is online, it is time to ponder how far we have come and reflect on how far we are yet to reach as humans! Thirty years ago, Tim Berners Lee created the world wide web, an invention that connected the world through an information space to share knowledge. The world wide web has opened the internet to everyone, making it easier for people to get and share information. As we stop to reflect on how our lives have changed, it is hard to escape the thought that we are just at the beginning of an evolution that will change the web today and how we shape our lives. A steady cascade of evolutions has changed how they utilize the web, from Web 1.0 to Web 5.0, which Jack Dorsey recently announced. We’ll briefly look through them.
Web 1.0 was a read-only internet with static pages without interaction and allowed only passive engagement. While web 1.0 connected users with information, web 2.0 connected with people and information. It is the read-and-write internet that we use now and aids in greater interactions. The users who use web 2.0 are known as prosumers because they can simultaneously produce what they consume, for example, the interactions on Facebook (now Meta) and the entries on Wikipedia.
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Web 3.0, currently under development, is known as the read, write and execute web where artificial intelligence and humans create a virtual world without an intermediary. Web 4.0, a.k.a intelligent web, connects all the real and virtual devices in real-time, creating highly intelligent interactions between man and machine. Web 5 identifies the privacy issues that came with the information exchange throughout the years and hopes to fix them through decentralization.
Jack Dorsey, the former CEO of Twitter, and his team, The Block Heads (TBH), announced their vision for a decentralized web platform called Web 5. They’ve stated that the aim is to return “ownership of data and identity to individuals.” This is also the core reason Dorsey gives as the difference between Web 3.0 and Web 5. Web 3.0, he believes, is not entirely decentralized and instead owned by “venture capitalists and limited partners.”
Web 5 is termed “The Telepathic web “or “The Symbiont web,” telepathic because it can read the user’s brain using chips and instruct the devices on the next action to take based on the emotional cues in the form of electrical signals from the brain of the users. It is also symbiont because it is a close union of humans and artificial intelligence. It is like building a future where we think of something, which is served instantly or communicated through minds before the words can be conveyed.
Web 5 is a combination of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0, which means that it will have the features of the existing version of the web; also, it will act in true symbiosis, interpreting emotions on more complex levels emotionally and logically. We agree that the struggle to maintain multiple passwords and accounts is real.
Web 5 will make things easy by storing our identity, data, and authorizations in a digital wallet. Therefore, whenever we want to join a social media app, we do not need to build a profile because we already have a digital wallet with a verified identity, making moving between the apps easier.
Web 5 helps make the internet experience more seamless and secure because now we can have personalized user experiences ranging from our music taste to video recommendations without having to fill in our choices or data every time we open a new app. Suppose we want to join a new music app; we can log in with our digital wallet, and our earlier playlists will be available in the applications, provided we grant permission to access our data.
When Jack Dorsey pitched in for Web 5, bearing in mind that every web takes a minimum of 10-20 years to come to fruition, the one thing that caught our attention was complete ownership of individual data making it more secure and private. Against how the web has been misused recently, here are some major advantages of bringing web 5.0 into the picture.
Web 5 aims to increase the user’s creativity by incorporating real-time emotive interaction with the web. The web’s emotive aspect can benefit many industries by creating real-time user interaction. This produces multiple opportunities for their customers to use the web to its best advantage.
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Moreover, Web 5’s extra decentralization provides extra security to the personal data used while signing up for different applications as it is based on blockchain. This ensures that users can keep their identities private with complete ownership and anonymity. Additionally, there is no threat of censorship from governments or big tech as Web 5 plans to be truly decentralized.
Given how much the web has changed over the years, with the metaverse and Web 3.0 currently dominating, it would be unimaginative to think it won’t change for the better in the future. Web 5 is the vision of the future, and the decentralized products it promises will help us move from one application to another easily.
Even though it all sounds interesting, Web 5 is still in its infancy, and the result is still unknown. When Web 5.0 is implemented, it will give us a more secure user experience where all our data can be saved in a decentralized digital wallet. It is not here yet, but we can anticipate the best. Till then, we can wait and watch how this new vision from Jack Dorsey unfurls in the coming years.
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