Blurtconnect Games – Season 1/ Week 1 – WEB 3.0 JUST SAY THE WORD AND IT’S DONE – #Team MADIFA

Imagine operating on a new type of internet that not only accurately interprets what you input, but actually understands everything you convey, whether through text, voice or other media, one where all content you consume is more tailored to you than ever before. We have arrived at a tipping point of a new phase in the web’s evolution. For some early pioneers this incumbent evolution is Web 3.0 technology. Regardless of this new evolution, there are evidence of a few early-stage Web 3.0 applications that already exist today, but until the new internet becomes fully embedded in the web infrastructure, their true potential cannot be observed. Source

LET US DEFINE THE TERMINOLOGY
Web 3.0 is the third generation of internet services for websites and applications that will focus on using a machine-based understanding of data to provide a data-driven and Semantic Web. The ultimate goal of Web 3.0 is to create more intelligent, connected and open websites. Source

Put differently, Web 3.0 is the upcoming third generation of the internet where websites and apps will be able to process information in a smart human-like way through technologies like machine learning (ML), Big Data, decentralized ledger technology (DLT), etc. This emerging technology, Web 3.0, was originally called the Semantic Web by World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, and was aimed at being a more autonomous, intelligent, and open internet. Source

In order to gain a proper understanding, The Web 3.0 definition can be expanded as follows: data will be interconnected in a decentralized way, which would be a huge leap forward to our current generation of the internet, where data is mostly stored in centralized repositories. Furthermore, users and machines will be able to interact with data. But for this to happen, programs need to understand information both conceptually and contextually. This entails that, the two cornerstones of Web 3.0 are semantic web and artificial intelligence (AI).

At this point, team MADIFA (@wealthymary, @dicksonbem and @faeren) knows that, any curious reader and a tech savvy individual must be questioning; could they have been a Web 1.0 and perhaps 2.0? Because it is only rational, that before the number 3 comes 1and 2. If this is your curiosity, then we are on the same page. So let us quickly visit the past so as to shade light on the present.

Web 1.0 (1989-2005)
Web 1.0, also referred to as the Static Web, was the first and most reliable internet in the 1990s despite only offering access to limited information with little or no user interaction. Back in the day, creating user pages or even commenting on articles weren’t a thing. Web 1.0 didn't have algorithms to sift internet pages, which made it extremely hard for users to find relevant information. Simply put, it was like a one-way highway with a narrow footpath where content creation was done by a select few and information came mostly from directories. You don’t wanna be there surely.
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Web 2.0 (2005-present)
The Social Web or as it were, Web 2.0, made the internet a lot more interactive thanks to advancements in web technologies like Javascript, HTML5, CSS3, etc., which enabled start-ups to build interactive web platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia and many more. This paved the way for both social networks and user-generated content production to flourish massively, since data can now be distributed and shared between various platforms and applications. Source This is why we can navigate from Hive to Blurt to Steemit and others; from Facebook to Twitter to Instagram to Youtube and others.
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Web 3.0 (yet to come)
Here we are. Web 3.0 is the next stage of the web evolution that would make the internet more intelligent or process information with near-human-like intelligence through the power of AI systems that could run smart programs to assist users. Tim Berners-Lee had said that the Semantic Web is meant to "automatically" interface with systems, people and home devices. As such, content creation and decision-making processes will involve both humans and machines. This would enable the intelligent creation and distribution of highly-tailored content straight to every internet consumer.
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Going forward, a common requirement for a Web 3.0 application is the ability to digest large-scale information and turn it into factual knowledge and useful executions for users. With that being said, Web 3.0 applications are still at their early stages. This means that they have a lot of room for improvement and are a far cry from how Web 3.0 apps could potentially function. Interestingly, some companies are building and even have products that they are transforming into Internet 3.0 applications. These companies include Amazon, Apple and Google. Two examples of applications that utilize Web 3.0 technologies are Siri and Wolfram Alpha. Do they ring any bells? Sure! Lets talk about these two.
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Siri
Over the years, Apple’s voice-controlled AI assistant has grown more intelligent and has expanded its abilities since its first appearance in the iPhone 4S model. Siri uses speech recognition, along with artificial intelligence, to be able to perform complex and personalized commands. Today, Siri and other AI assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Samsung’s Bixby can understand requests such as “where is the nearest burger joint” or “book an appointment with @bestkizito at 8:00 am tomorrow” and immediately come up with the right information or action. Guess what, there is a movie titled JEXI, we bet you, go and watch this movie and thank team MADIFA later, because it summarises Web 3.0.

Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha is a “computational knowledge engine” that answers your questions directly by computation, as opposed to giving you a list of WebPages like search engines do. If you want a practical comparison, search “Russia vs Ukraine” on both Wolfram Alpha and Google and see the difference. Google gives limited details, mostly related to the keyword since it is the most popular search. Alpha, on the other hand, would give you a detailed comparison of the two countries, like you asked. That’s the key difference between Web 2.0 and 3.0.
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Key Features of Web 3.0
To really understand the next stage of the internet, we need to take a look at the four key features of Web 3.0:
• Ubiquity
• Semantic Web
• Artificial Intelligence
• 3D Graphics

Ubiquity
Ubiquity means being or having the capacity to be everywhere, especially at the same time. In other words, omnipresent. As a fact, Web 2.0 is already ubiquitous since, for instance, a Facebook user can instantly capture an image and share it, which then becomes ubiquitous since it's available to anyone no matter where they are, as long as they have access to the social media platform. Therefore, Web 3.0 simply takes this a step further by making the internet accessible to everyone anywhere, at any time. At some point, internet-connected devices will no longer be concentrated on computers and smartphones like in Web 2.0 since IoT (Internet of Things) technology will bring forth a plethora of new types of smart devices. This is awesome, isn’t it?

Semantic Web
Semantic(s) is the study of the relationship between words. Therefore, the Semantic Web, according to Berners-Lee, enables computers to analyze loads of data from the Web, which includes content, transactions and links between persons. Applying semantics in the Web would enable machines to decode meaning and emotions by analyzing data. Consequently, internet users will have a better experience driven by enhanced data connectivity.

Artificial Intelligence
Wikipedia defines AI as intelligence demonstrated by machines. And since Web 3.0 machines can read and decipher the meaning and emotions conveyed by a set of data, it brings forth intelligent machines. Although Web 2.0 presents similar capabilities, it is still predominantly human-based, which opens up room for corrupt behaviours such as biased product reviews, rigged ratings, etc.

Spatial Web and 3D Graphics
Some futurists also call Web 3.0 the Spatial Web as it aims to blur the line between the physical and the digital by revolutionizing graphics technology, bringing into clear focus three-dimensional (3D) virtual worlds. Unlike their 2D counterparts, 3D graphics bring a new level of immersion not only in futuristic gaming applications like Decentraland, but also other sectors like real estate, health, e-commerce, and many more.

In a nutshell, when Web 3.0 arrives, as hard as it is to fathom considering how smart devices have already changed our behavioural patterns; the internet will become exponentially more integrated in our daily lives. We will see nearly all of today’s normally offline machines, from home appliances like ovens, vacuums, and refrigerators to all types of transport become part of the IoT economy, interacting with its autonomous servers and decentralized applications (DApps), advancing new digital realms like blockchain and digital asset to power a myriad of new tech “miracles” for the 21st century.
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