Web 3 is a marketing term by some people who have built a system that is still at least 3 years, if not perhaps 10 or more years, from being anything remotely r

Web 3 is a marketing term by some people who have built a system that is still at least 3 years, if not perhaps 10 or more years, from being anything remotely resembling "web" scale, where several billion non-technical people can just push a button on some website and "be" on the Web 3.0, which mostly just works. It's a cynical play to position themselves as the Next Inevitability simply by grabbing the next number before anyone else and planting themselves down in your mind as being The Next Number, because 3 inevitably follows 2. They'd like to borrow that inevitability in your mind. It won't work. Web 2 doesn't have enough hype (that cycle cycled a long time ago) for anyone to get too excited about updates on the term. But it may establish itself enough as "3" that the net effect in the end is to kill the Web (Number) naming scheme. That'll be the biggest thing it accomplishes. Marketing can do a lot but it can't literally just name things into existence like this. This comment is strictly about the terminology. The tech is what it is, but at the moment, I don't even see what I'd call a prototype of any "Web 3.0" deserving of the name. It is still at best in the benchtesting phase. I couldn't explain anything currently called Web 3.0 to my non-computer-technical but generally-computing-savvy father, let alone the general public, and most of what I've tried out of the "Web 3.0" straight-up didn't work when I tried it. All best wishes to people working on this and I don't mean this to be a discouragement per se (unless you are working on this and do mistakenly believe you're on the verge of breakout... sorry, you're a long ways from that, I'm just the messenger here), there's interesting things going on and a lot of silly things going on, just like you'd expect from the very early bench-test phase, but that's where you are. You're not in a position to be claiming to be an inevitability. "Web 3.0" isn't. The more likely "Web 3.0" is, sad to say, the Metaverse, if companies can work out some way of carrying over the "linking" concept and sharing space in there. That, to be honest, isn't very likely either, but it's comparable in probability to any of these "web 3.0" technologies actually making it to web scale, i.e., both very low. (In the Metaverse's case, the reality is that it'll be at least a decade at a minimum before you can just "decide" to be something and find that it carries over everywhere. Look at the direction the increasingly sharded streaming space is to get a clue about what the reality will look like.)