Web 5.0: Relevance for UPSC Exam
Web 5.0: It is an important topic for UPSC prelims and mains examination. Web 5.0 will come under- awareness in the fields of IT, Space, Computers, robotics, nano-technology, bio-technology and issues relating to intellectual property rights of Science and Technology (GS Paper 3).
Web 5.0 in News
- Recently, the former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey announced his vision for a new decentralized web platform that is being called Web 5.0.
- Web 5.0 is being built with an aim to return “ownership of data and identity to individuals”.
What is Web 5.0?
- About: Web 5.0 is aimed at “building an extra decentralized web that puts you in control of your data and identity”.
- Development: Web 5.0 is being developed by Dorsey’s Bitcoin business unit, The Block Head (TBH).
- Significance: It will allow users to ‘own their identity’ on the Internet and ‘control their data’.
- Web 5.0 envision an Internet without threat of censorship – from governments or big tech, and without fear of significant outages.
- Use Cases for Web 5.0: On its website, the TBT presents two use cases for how Web 5.0 will change things in the future.
- Changes the “Control of Identity”: An individual can switch apps whenever she wants, taking her social persona with her.
- Gives users control over their own data: An individual can keep his data in his decentralized web node.
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How Web 5.0 is different from Web 1.0, Web 2.0, & Web 3.0?
- Web 1.0: It was the first generation of the global digital communications network.
- It is often referred to as the “read-only” Internet made of static web-pages that only allowed for passive engagement.
- Web 2.0: next stage in the evolution of the web was the “read and write” Internet (Web 2.0).
- Users were now able to communicate with servers and other users leading to the creation of the social web.
- Web 2.0 is the world wide web that we use today.
- Web 3.0: It is an evolving term that is used to refer to the next generation of Internet – a “read-write-execute” web – with decentralization as its bedrock.
- It speaks about a digital world, built leveraging the blockchain technology, where people are able to interact with each other without the need of an intermediary.
- Web 3.0 will be driven by Artificial Intelligence and machine learning where machines will be able to interpret information like humans.
- Web 5.0: Web 5.0 is Web 2.0 plus Web 3.0 that will allow users to ‘own their identity’ on the Internet and ‘control their data’.
- However, Web 3.0 isn’t truly decentralized or owned by its users, but is instead controlled by various “venture capitalists and limited partners”.
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