There is a famous saying in the martial arts circle: "Eight poles plus hacking, gods and ghosts are afraid." If Web3.0+AGI, what will the world look like?
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author丨Edited by Yuan Jing丨Big Rabbit
The value of Web3.0 has begun to be valued. Recently, the good news from Hong Kong has once again ignited the enthusiasm in this field. Objectively speaking, as a concept, Web3.0 has been around for a long time, but at this point in time, the reasons behind its renewed importance are really curious.
Where will the currency circle go, how to combine Web3.0 and industry, and why AIGC changes productivity while Web3.0 changes production relations?
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"Stop staring at the currency circle"
The first part of the story is that the era of "coin bosses" is about to ebb.
"I have been working on Web3.0 for several years, and finally they quit!" A practitioner who has been following the digital planet (ID: digital-planet) for a long time sighed. In his eyes, the traditional currency circle is actually the hardest-hit area of IQ tax, and has set a bad example for a long time.
In the industry, the currency circle and Web3.0 have a certain correlation, and both have the same underlying technology. Today, although offline activities in the currency circle can still be seen occasionally, as far as the trend is concerned, the "leek cutting" wave of cryptocurrency has become a thing of the past.
"You can see a clear trend, the Hong Kong local government is doing pilots, and there are now traditional technology, financial technology and industrial companies here," an investor said to Digital Planet (ID: digital-planet). In his view, the current Hong Kong has already referred to the Shenzhen model during the reform and opening up in terms of financial technology, and is becoming a new bridgehead for opening up to the outside world.
"I feel like a breath of fresh air," says one entrepreneur. Because he has always been "unaccustomed" to the actions of the currency circle, he was even pessimistic about the future of Web3.0. However, recently, he participated in a series of local activities in Hong Kong. During this period, he himself changed his opinion and believed that "this time it is true that industry and technology will really integrate with Web3.0".
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The real value of Web3.0
In the history of the development of the Internet, the Netscape Navigator browser launched by Netscape can be said to be famous in history. Benefiting from network protocols such as TCP/IP, the popularity of various browsers at that time allowed the network to enter the homes of ordinary people through it.
For simple understanding, people refer to the portal era and the network that focuses on one-way information transmission as "Web1.0"; while the network products that focus on social media and can be transmitted in two directions (transfer comments, live broadcasts, etc.) are called Web2.0 . However, Web1.0&Web2.0 has a strong "intermediary" color, and the platform grabs the huge income contributed by the creators, and it has always been in a high state.
Essentially, the above two Internet platforms can be classified as the "middleman earning the difference" model. Industry insiders expressed to Digital Planet (ID: digital-planet) that in the era of Web3.0, the above situation will improve, and the value contributed by creators will return to creators.
"That is to say, using Web3.0 to do a project with the same model as Web2.0 will be subversive, " said an investor. (Web3.0 is called the value Internet, and its specific implementation mechanism needs to be developed separately. It will not be discussed here. Interested friends can check it out by themselves)
In fact, the discussion on Web3.0 abroad has been very lively. In contrast, the related industries such as metaverse, NFT, and blockchain in China are in a fragmented and undeveloped state. At present, with the introduction of relevant favorable policies in Hong Kong, it has attracted the attention and attention of a large number of relevant people.
Theoretically, Web3.0 has attracted people who have not achieved their ambitions in the Web2.0 era, traditional Internet transformation practitioners, and different people from the real industry who hope to combine with Web3.0. "The most attractive thing is that Web3.0 calls for changing production relations," a practitioner said to Digital Planet (ID: digital-planet). In a nutshell, Token mechanism, smart contracts and other technical specifications and quantification of the value created by users in the network, and has distinctive features such as non-tamperable and decentralization. In theory, for creators or users, its value is greater than that of related products in the Web2.0 era.
Therefore, according to the observation of Data Planet (ID: digital-planet), quite a few people currently hold the view that " Web3.0 is a new production relationship, which was born to adapt to the development of productivity."
Assuming the above theory holds true, it is undoubtedly gratifying. As can be seen in our past descriptions of industries such as AGI (artificial general intelligence), the current progress in productivity, at least in the creator economy, is very obvious. As far as the objective law of the economy is concerned, the relationship of production needs to adapt to the development of productivity. Although it is not known whether this important task will be borne by Web3.0 in the end, it seems that there is indeed some truth in the broad description of this field.
A more realistic view is that Web 3.0 could also include the incremental productivity provided by AGI, so as to provide more value to its contributors.
There is also a more radical point of view that Web3.0+AGI may deprive the "entrance" of the Web2.0 era. Distributed services will rely on distributed products to exist. By then, people can already obtain services such as takeaway, personal assistant, outsourcing, etc. in the ChatBot interface. However, service providers will exist in a distributed manner and will not Rely on a centralized platform. As a result, the logic of "middleman making the difference" in the Web2.0 era will be subverted, or even cease to exist.
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The development dilemma of Web3.0
Although the idea of Web3.0 is wonderful, the current development is a bit unsatisfactory.
In the capital circle, Web3.0 is not a new concept. In our observations, quite a few companies use this to speculate on stock prices and seek financing. An investor analyzed Digital Planet (ID: digital-planet): "From this point of view, the A-share market is still an immature market, because the phenomenon of 'concept discounting' is common, and you haven't done it yet. Compared with the U.S. stock market, this situation is relatively rare, and investors judge the value of the company based on whether it can achieve it."
Therefore, in this article, we prefer to describe Web3.0 as being in the stage of concept implementation.
On the project side, whether in smart contracts, hashing, DAO or other peripheral concepts, there are no benchmarking standards or companies in this industry, and industry practitioners are like crucian carp crossing the river. Not strong.
Due to limited space and research depth, we can only list some models with more development potential here for reference only: A project re-planned the value of reposting and praise in Web2. The value of commenters on products mainly based on pictures and texts. The project believes that: "The first person to like is more valuable in social networks." At the same time, the value created by this user will be recorded by the Token mechanism, and the points form to be fulfilled.
Those who hold a negative view believe that if the above model considers the existence of trolls and malicious point exchange behaviors, the sense of value will not be reflected, and even the sacrifice of fairness will encourage cheating in disguise. Of course, having said that, we cite such cases to illustrate the difficulty of building a Web3.0 network.
Therefore, the business models of some Web3.0 projects also need to be considered urgently.
Conclusion: As some industry leaders have said, "True artificial intelligence has emerged." The reason why artificial general intelligence (AGI) is so popular is that it has developed towards commercialization and scalability. In contrast to Web3.0, due to the relatively elementary level of development, many things have not yet been concluded.
There are many practical problems facing Web3.0 practitioners. For example, projects still rely on "currency issuance" (financing), the influence of exchanges is still huge, communities and self-organizing ecological operations are still difficult, and some people still tend to "compromise public interests" and Sacrificing blockchain fairness. This has led to frequent chaos in the industry. Some project parties said to Digital Planet (ID: digital-planet): "The Web3.0 project promoted by some exchange platforms is just to make more money for their own people."
But these cannot stop people from imagining the future.
Some practitioners said to Digital Planet (ID: digital-planet): "Web3.0 needs to re-plan the rules of the intelligent network." For example, in the "Coding is law" logic, in order to avoid possible monopoly of AGI's computing power in the future, practitioners will write the law into the code: "Any organization with 51% computing power will be attacked " way to protect distributed.
In addition, as we mentioned above, DAO, as an organizational governance model, will innovate the existing pyramid-shaped traditional management model.
At the moment, if you comment on what Web3.0 has to do, it needs more and more "fools" who are seeking truth from facts. Because there are enough so-called smart people.