Web3 sparks online culture war
A well-funded and intensely motivated chunk of tech’s hive mind is rebuilding the web on a foundation of cryptocurrency and blockchain. They call it “Web3,” Axios managing editor Scott Rosenberg writes.
- Why it matters: Developers, investors and early adopters imagine a future in which the technologies that enable Bitcoin and Ethereum will break up today’s concentrated tech power, and usher in a golden age of individual empowerment and entrepreneurial freedom.
Zoom out: Web 1.0 (in the 1990s) brought us online publishing and the first incarnation of e-commerce.
- Web 2.0(in the 2000s) brought new ways for users to share content and platforms to distribute it.
- Web3 aims to reorganize the economy around digital assets — new currencies, tokens and forms of property (like NFTs) secured by math rather than law, custom or force.
Reality check: Each previous web generation believed it had found the key to new forms of digital organization that would be immune to the domination of giant gatekeepers.
What’s next: Web3 is all about digital property rights, where Web 2.0 followed an ethos of community sharing. That’s pitting these movements’ true believers against one another in an online culture war.
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Πηγή: axios.com
