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Why is Tim Berners-Lee skeptical of blockchain-based Web3?

Sir Tim Berners-Lee was skeptical about the effectiveness of blockchain-based Web3 and continues to rely on his own vision with the decentralized “Solid” platform, which he assures will be the one that truly give users full control over their data.

Web3 is a concept that you will hear a lot about in the coming months / years. It is a set of technologies that promise to offer and a new and improved version of the world’s largest computer network The World Wide Web makes major changes to the way we connect and communicate on the Web.

Berners-Lee shares Web3’s supposed mission to transmit data Great technique users, but set out on a different path to the goal. While Web3 is based on a blockchain, Solid is built with standard web tools and open specifications. Private information is stored in decentralized data containers called “pods”, which can be placed wherever the user wishes.

From here, users are the ones who decide which applications can access their data. This approach, embodied by Berners-Lee (and other leading technologies) in the Solid platform, aims to provide interoperability, speed, scalability and privacy. Something that can’t be achieved with blockchain-based Web3, according to Berners-Lee: “when you try to build those things on a blockchain, it just doesn’t work”.

solid vs. Web3

Berners-Lee says Solid has two separate purposes. One of them is to prevent companies from misusing our data for unsolicited purposes, from manipulating voters to generating clickbaits. The second is to provide opportunities to benefit from our information. For example, healthcare data may be shared between trusted services to improve our treatment and support medical research. Our friends from Facebook, LinkedIn or Flickr had access to our photos without having to upload images to any platform and always with explicit permission.

This evokes the original goal of Berners-Lee to create a website and collaboration tool. “I wanted to be able to solve problems when part of the solution is in my head and part of the solution is in your head and you are on the other side of the planet, connected to the Internet.”Explain. “It simply came to our notice then. It has become more of a publishing medium, but all is not lost ».

And this is because 32 years after the “father of the WWW” wrote a design for a system for distributing hypertext or hypermedia documents connected and accessible via the Internet, which would be the germ of the global computer network we use today, the World Wide Web is facing serious problems.

The Huge dependence on technology giants and their servers worth the problems of the current web. If large platforms crash, users will not be able to access content or communicate with each other. In addition, content control is in your hands, as is massively collected personal information and not always with proper transparency. Not to mention counterfeiting, misinformation, censorship, government cyber espionage, or an interest in breaking net neutrality.

Web3, another way to the same goal

Berners-Lee seeks to convince governments, businesses and users of the need to join a common set of commitments to improve the WWW and “Restore the power of individuals on the web”. This is also a big goal of Web3, but it relies on completely different tools to achieve it.

Much of Web3’s vision is based on blockchain technology. This blockchain is basically a decentralized network built on a peer-to-peer connection. Each device on the network handles a small portion of the computing and communications that occur on the network and creates an online network without the need for servers, and thus without control of large platforms and / or governments.

We have already seen this type of connection peer to peer in action. Some newer ones, such as networking applications used for instant messaging, have kept activists connected during protests in Hong Kong and anonymously. Others have been used for decades, such as bittorrent networks, which do not need centralized servers because each user’s computer stores chunks of data. If it were implemented on a global scale, in theory could be removed by complete need servers centralized. With what it would entail.

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While the possibilities of peer-to-peer communication are exciting, blockchain is still best known for driving cryptocurrencies and NFTs, ie unique tokens that are already used in various arenas. Although they do not have the best publicity, they are important Web3 technologies and have a wide range of uses for users and professionals outside the best known, such as digital art.

Sure the most ambitious Web3 project today is the “metaversion”. The general idea has existed in science fiction for decades, but after the announcement of Mark Zuckerberg (including the change of Facebook name to Meta), it jumped into the global “real” world as virtual 3D spaces, where users would interact in real time in virtual / advanced environments. reality. We will also have a metaversion even in soup, because Microsoft and other major technology companies have plans to promote it. Or Apple itself when launching its first AR / VR devices.

It will take many years for all of this to become operational. Whether it’s Solid or Web3, hopefully the goal a site that returns control to the user and not another more advanced and different way of doing business. We have a recent example in Blockchain technology itself, originally intended as a way to create a decentralized “global computer” that would connect everyone to a massive network without a server, but ultimately focus primarily on processing cryptocurrencies and NFT transactions. And it is not clear that those in power will allow Web3 with more freedom, anonymity and control of our lives online.

To be continued…

Source: Muy Computer

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