What Is Web 2.0, Web3, 3.0, 4, and 5- (6a)

bydeelilah

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2 years ago

It's Over My Head Most of the Time

Recently, I have been delving into subjects where it seems angels fear to tread-- and developing a "passion" for doing so. And some of my readers expressed, if not a negative, then a reserved reaction toward recent articles, to be specific, anything having to do with Self-Driving Motor Vehicles, Facebook/Meta and its push into the so-called Metaverse, anything Robotic, and the use of Dictation Software and Machine Learning in restaurant ordering systems.

Facebook is a mature company and its customer base (that would be my husband) is also mature. It faces a two-fold dilemma. The mature are dropping off and the young are not interested. Therefore, Zuckerberg's push to build-out and control the Metaverse is smart.

But there is more to it than that-- and half the world refuses to see it. Some of us don't like being controlled. Their policing policies and "smarter than God attitude" is turning off half (or more) of the customers they do have. That would include me.

The same goes for other mature companies, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Twitter, and Disney, to name a few.

As for the Metaverse, there are other companies out there that may send those companies into the corporate graveyard sooner than any of us think. I will be happy to report on that soon.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

One of my reasons (at this point, you could call it a goal) for studying AR and VR niches is to separate the bad from the beautiful, if only in my own mind.

If we can be censored, Facebook, Microsoft, what else can you do?

A lot.

In my last post about Facebook, FrankB-1 from our WA family made a uniquely relevant comment. Referring to AR Atificial Intelligence, he reminded us:

"It's especially useful in things like remote robotic surgery."

And this is absolutely true. In the medical field, we could label AR technologies miraculous. I recently visited a hospital which advertises its use of robotic surgery, which, of course, speaks to this hospital's state-of-the-art medical services.

And Warren Blaisure, also from our WA family, writes: "I'm bedazzled and frazzled and a little rattled too."

I love it that we have poets among us. Warren, I am also bedazzled, but that's a good thing, frazzled, not so good, because there's too much information and too little time, and rattled because of rules, rules, and more rules. Give me Gilligan's Island (a sitcom, '64-'67).

A big mistake I made in taking on these subjects, was failing to recognize how big the big picture actually is. I feel like I'm back in college. To speak as an expert, I have a whole lot to learn. It will take some time and a lot of research. Thank you for letting me practice on you.

It All Started With Bitcoin

Though many of these modern technology niches are closely related, all to some degree, I am struggling to narrow the fields and to organize the material. What a tangled web I wove, when I practiced to know Web3.

Ah, there it is, Warren, finally, the subject.

Well, maybe, but hang on.

What Is the Subject?

The title infers some things. But as you can see, this is "6a" of how many parts? I don't know yet. Consider it an introduction. Everything in the title is real. But until recently, I had not considered anything past web3-- and I didn't know there was a difference between web3 and web 3.0, but there is a significant difference. So you see, to really get to the bottom of this, is to start with an understanding of web 1.

And woe is me, I need to add more than a few new acronyms to get the job done. When will it all end?

It won't.

But let us not forget our over-riding purpose, which is to discover and learn about hot topics relevant to our online businesses. And believe me, some of these niches are hot.

A Move Into Crypto

It all started with crypto, which all started with Steve (husband) and our move out of the small town, pictured above, to the big city. Main Street runs in front of the church -- you get the idea--and that is the small town I grew up in.

I imported a husband from the big city, Seattle, and we spent twenty-five, or more, years building restaurant/food service/catering businesses here. I did not have time to learn about crypto and had not heard of web3.

Why am I mentioning this? Because, when I say I'm naive about some things, I am not kidding.

However, due to an insatiable curiosity and an analytical/unsystematic (oxymoron) mind, when it comes to new, unfamiliar, projects, I tend to jump into the deep-end and pray I can still swim.

An aside on jumping into deep-ends: I made my middle sister jump into the deep end of the pool with me, She panicked, got on top of me, and I nearly drowned. I also got caught swimming in the nude at our Baptist church camp. That's how curiosity kills the cat.

akacrypto.com

Akacrypto.com is an undeveloped domain I own in anticipation of finding affiliate ideas.

Now, why do I say it all started with crypto?

After the move to the big city, Steve received a small inheritance from his father, which consisted of stock market shares of Boeing and a few shares of Searttle's own, Starbucks. While driving his Amerigas propane transport route, he was listening with great interest to Charles Payne, a big time stock market analyst on Fox news, about investing in the stock market.

He got me interested, which didn't take much, and we dove (which rhymes with wove) into learning the stock market. Well, easier said than done. And then he got too busy and left me holding the money bags. I could have a metaphorical holiday here, and say he left the wolf to protect the chickens.

I really wanted to be a writer when I grew up.

So, it started with investing, which led to crypto, which led to blockchain (another new word), which led to web3, which led to web1 through web 6. Yes, somebody out there spoke of web 6. When we reach web 6.6.6, I'm done,

Web 6 (I think) is the world in which robots start seriously thinking, as in having emotions. We are far from this web we wove, but it helps us to put some things in perspective.

By the way, we are currently operating in Web 2.0

Below taken from Flat World Business:

"Are we there yet?

It seems we had everything we had wished for in Web 2.0, but it is way behind when it comes to intelligence. Perhaps a six-year-old child has/had better analytical abilities than existing search technologies! Keyword based search of web 2.0 resulted in an information overload. The following attributes are going to be a part of Web 3.0: Contextual Search

• Tailor made Search
• Personalized Search
• Evolution of 3D Web
• Deductive Reasoning

Informational overload-- I know more than a thing or two about that. Thanks, Google.

Don't be afraid of doing a deep-dive. You won't break your head by hitting bottom. In fact, unlike the swimming pool with the concrete bottom, there may not be a bottom.

Thank you for reading. Stay tuned for part 6b. I promise to explain all the webs in proper sequence and starting with the subject.

Donna, akadeelilah.