[rafiki6]

If by Web3 you mean decentralized networks, then I'm not sure it has much of a future. I'm not sure why we thought there was. We've had decentralization since the dawn of the internet, and it never took off.

My view is that decentralization is not the panacea it's being claimed to be. Humanity is not inherently trustless and we naturally want to hold something or someone accountable when things go wrong, and if we think this is solvable by complex technical transparency, we've missed the whole field of UX and why Apple is so successful. Do you really think the average person cares about a decentralized version of Instagram? Even in networks that seem decentralized, a lot of times scalability issues can only be solved through centralization.

Beyond that decentralization is naturally against the establishment, and the establishment won't go down with a fight. The only future decentralization has is if the establishment keeps getting weaker.

If you mean anything else by Web3, I'm not 100% sure. I have no idea what the term means tbh. It's being used to peddle a whole host of things.

I also think Web3 assumes that we've finished being in "Web2" whatever that even means. I guess Web2 is really the emergence of cloud computing, SaaS and mobile computing networks. I'm not sure that's quite over. I'm not really sure we need to evolve this. Or does Web2 mean big web companies who sell ads? If that's what it means, we can deem these companies (e.g. Google) as necessary infrastructure and regulate the crap out of them. The problem with these terms is they're just meaningless mumbo jumbo mostly created by people who have no depth.