Tim Berners-Lee, creator of “www” tells to ignore “Web 3”
The creator of the internet Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist, isn’t convinced that crypto visionaries are the future of the internet and says we should ignore it. Instead Berners-Lee has his own web decentralization project called Solid.
It’s important to clarify this in order to discuss the impact of new technologies, said Berners-Lee, speaking on the stage at the Web Summit in Lisbon. You need to understand what the terms being discussed actually mean, beyond the buzzwords. It’s a real shame that the actual Web3 name has been used by Ethereum folks for the things they do with blockchain.
Web3 is an unclear term in the tech world used to describe a problematic future version of the internet that is more scattered than it is today and not dominated by giants Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
While Berners-Lee shares the goal of freeing our personal data from the clutches of big techs, he’s not convinced that blockchain, the distributed ledger technology that underlies cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, will be the solution. Blockchain protocols are not good for Solid, a web decentralization project led by Berners-Lee. Web 3 is slow, too expensive and publicly available. Personal data should be fast, cheap and private.
Web 3 stuff will not be used by Solid. According to Berners-Lee People get confused with Web 3 with Web 3.0, his own proposal to transform the Internet. His new startup, Inrupt, aims to give users control over their own data, including how it’s accessed and stored. The company raised $30 million in a financing round in December. According to TechCrunch our personal information is being siphoned off by a handful of big tech platforms like Google and Facebook, which they use to lock us into their platforms.
The result concluded that the winner was the company that controlled the most data and the losers were everyone else including Login IDs that allow users to share their data with others. A common universal API, or application programming interface, that apps can use to pull data from any source.
Berners-Lees isn’t the only notable tech figure who has doubts about Web3. The movement has dealt a slap in the face to some Silicon Valley executives, like Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey and Tesla CEO Lon Musk.
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