The Internet is a completely "natural" and integrated part of our lives. We use the Internet for so many day-to-day tasks—simple and complex—that we are almost unaware of the evolution that the Internet has experienced in just a couple of decades. Probably, once Web 3 is implemented, the network we use in the short term will be as unrecognizable as the current Internet would be for a user from the 1980s.
The evolution of the internet—Web 3.0— will bring many changes that we will have to get used to ; Some of them will be gradual, others are already occurring and will continue to modify our way of understanding the Internet and also the way we use its applications and functions. Understanding what Web 3 is and what it implies will help us assimilate this paradigm shift in a much more organic way.
The main characteristics of Web 3
Many of the new approaches related to Web3 have more to do with a change in the “consciousness” of users and corporations than with specific technical elements. However, there are certain aspects of the "Internet of the future" that cannot be understood without recently emerging technologies, as well as new habits of using them.
Decentralization : Although we believe that the Internet is an open and "chaotic" universe, the reality is that the vast majority of servers, infrastructures, applications and services that make the Internet what it is today are in the hands of a small handful of large companies. . That will change with the Web3 development company. The trend is to replace that concentration with more decentralized dynamics: more suppliers and modest companies, private and community-managed networks, connection nodes in developing countries, etc.
Horizontality and "democracy" : We do not pay attention to them, normally, but the use of applications and services on the network is conditioned by legal contracts, terms and conditions imposed by the companies that dominate the Internet.
Trust : Web 3 the solidity that a user or company offers to the community, especially in relation to the data and information it manages, what it does with her and the transparency with which she behaves on the Internet. Trust will be the true value-added differentiating factor in the Internet of tomorrow.
Aspects that will be common on Web 3
With the framework that we have presented, we must prepare, as users, for a series of new elements that will be common in Web 3.0.
Cloud computing : Having data on physical storage units will be a rarity. All hardware development will be focused on improving and maintaining the servers that make up the Internet as a digital habitat. The bulk of the information that will circulate and be managed on Web 3 will be in the cloud.
Smart contracts : Technologies such as blockchain will make smart contracts “common currency” on the Web 3. These contracts not only refer to digital documents with legal validity; any information transaction that requires confirmation of identity, authentication of the parties and the fulfillment of a series of conditions X, for a result to occur. And it will be in the form of a smart contract and will dominate all aspects of digital life very soon.
Ownership of data : The technologies currently under development and the ecosystem that Web 3 will favor will make users much more aware of what information related to them circulates on the Internet, what is done with it and what risks are involved in sharing it. The ownership and control of this data will correspond solely to the user, who will have the legitimacy to do with it whatever they want. Even trade using it as an asset.
