Web 3.0, IPFS & PIE- NFT, Blockchain & Beyond
Dr. Atif Farid Mohammad PhD
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IPFS or InterPlanetary File System is a P2P (Peer to Peer) Data Communication Protocol. Where PIE stands for Personal Information Environment. Let's think there is an ancient library (pre-computerization world), where you can walk in and read any book, which is not replaceable and is available to you 24 hours 7 days a week. This library does not issue a library card and anyone is welcome to come in look at the books, read, find the material they are trying to get for any given reason. There is no censorship, as these books are already published and are available to you. Since you do not have library card, and there are no cameras to see who is looking at the books, borrowing within the library to read, etc., makes the reader anonymous.
Any given number of people can walk in this library and go about their business. There is no risk of fire also. Juan Benet created this protocol in 2015. On the other hand I had a chance to create "Personal Information Environment" for me (only - as test user) in 2009 [1]. I used the concept of "Data Recharging" [2]. Since any and all data is stationary and needs storage as per the data storage norms. The implementation of mathematical functions on top of this data allows us to drive new data and either use it and later discard, or we store it for any future usage.
Standard Web 2.0 is a centrally controlled access, by Google, YouTube, Netflix, AWS etc. Where as Web 3.0 allows us to work in P2P fashion, without Master-Slave architecture at the back end of the network we are utilizing. Standard Web 2.0 is utilized by all of us in our everyday life for our communication, transactional or getting information needs. Where as IPFS allows all users to be equally in control on a sustainable network. An interesting question arises, is Web 2.0 not sustainable? The short answer is, it is, however if YouTube is down, where will we go to watch our favorite content, perhaps TikTok or IG (Instagram), what if their servers are acting up and are down for maintenance and the list of Ifs and Buts can go longer.
Web 2.0 has made all of us users, consumers as well as commodities for the larger corps to sell our data in terms of our behaviors, so the companies can pitch us their products. Our data (habits, behavior towards shopping, reading, etc.) is available for such concerns for pennies, where we get pretty much no control over the sale of this property that belongs to us. The issues we are witnessing today are with organizational Data Privacy, Security, Accessibility and more of such.
The advent of Web 3.0, Blockchain, NFT & more of such have initiated a change in our behavior towards the digital assets, whether it is digital art, cryptocurrency, and list goes on. The distributed internet as we want it, allows all peers to be equal, and there are no centralization associated. This distributed internet utilized the IPFS protocol, where PIE as mentioned earlier also permits the Data Recharging at the connected nodes, which are of equal control to the data disseminated within a PIE.
Note: This is an ongoing research topic of the author, stay tuned for more.
References:
[1] Atif Farid Mohammad. Use of Data Recharging for Personal Information Environment. Software Engineering Research and Practice 2008: 718-724
[2] Atif Farid Mohammad. Ubiquitous Data Management in a Personal Information Environment. SCSS 2009: 17-22. DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-9112-3_4
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2 年Technology Web 3.0, Blockchain, NFT will change our lives forever, everything seems stub. Web 3.0 will reshape the world of technology, there may be many new companies or organizations forming in a decentralized way and the old giants will be left behind such as Yahoo.
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2 年Atif - I am much less confident than many that Web 3.0 will be any less susceptible to consolidation and power than the first two versions. However, I do think the market demand has changed due to abuse of the Web, which is changing behavior - including behavior of regulators and individuals, and that will hopefully lead to new and better models for individuals, organizations and our society.