It feels a lot like the nineties all over again, with that same rare chance and, yet again, the tools to build the future at your fingertips. But it's not going to make itself
One of the many ways Web 3.0 differs is the ownership of the internet. It is being built by everyone, and for everyone. Image: Shutterstock
The year is 2032. You’re sitting with friends at a limited release RTFKT x Starbucks pod-cafe, sipping your morning cup of latte when a cute-looking Sorayama robot walks over and asks you whether you’d like to try out their latest Huckleberry latte sundaes when they launch next week.
You wave over it and it’s added to your wallet. Just then, your girlfriend arrives at the table and you make room for her by pulling out a Murakami chair from your vault. It is made up of 6000 Wild Chrysanthemums that are timed to glow and change color every 33 seconds, in a loop-cycle of 7 years.
The music is subversive with a touch of blues served by a Bored Ape on the DJ console. Hours pass, and it’s time to be home. You bid your adieus and log off. You remove the Magic Leap you were wearing and realize it’s 10 am in the real world.
With all that we hear and read about the phenomenon called Web 3.0 today, it’s possible to imagine a future in a way that is not as disjointed from our picture of it five years back as we thought it to be.
It feels a lot like the nineties all over again, with that same rare chance and yet again, the tools to build the future at your fingertips. But it’s not going to make itself. Creators, collectors, DeFi aficionados, savvy brands, digital-forward agencies, tech bros, crypto punks, bored apes, and Sers – it’s going to take all of us to work together to realise this wonderful dream that some of us were too naive to even see coming.