I think that Web 1 & Web 2 are more "technical" concepts: - Web 1 is about publishing content like a newspaper on website (or hosted blog) - Web 2 is about in

I think that Web 1 & Web 2 are more "technical" concepts: - Web 1 is about publishing content like a newspaper on website (or hosted blog) - Web 2 is about interactive content (comments, retweets, likes) For me, Web 3 is hard to define, because there's a lot of marketing... Let's say maybe the bitcoin & blockchain tech on the technical side (and the ransomware industry). Is AR/VR another king of Web X ? Not sure... it's more another kind of browser (like the smartphone is another kind of computer) but until now, there's no different kind of services On the other side: AI allows a different kind of services... but is not related to Web only. I think that Web 4 will come when we will understand that "Web 3" is about "complete individual liberty"... and that we will understand that it's wrong: if the "good guys" have this kind of liberty, the bad guy have it too ! So it's a kind of a "new Far West" without any laws I think that Web 4 should be technically the comeback to federation (like email or mastodon) with user-owned datas (on THEIR computer/phone, not on some Facebook server) protected by some king of differential privacy, allowing users to "pay" either in datas, cash or bitcoin. As the servers are federated, it's still possible to "block" some bad contents or unlawfull behaviour at scale without restricting too much individual liberty. Just a thought and YMMV