WebMe #TechVision Digital platforms have Inrupt released an enterprise version of Solid, become a wellspring of value a technology built on existing web standards, which lets users control their data and store it in but the well runs dry once the 49,50 Personal Online Data Stores, or Pods. Now, data or experience hits the large organizations and governments can build proverbial garden wall. websites or applications that interact with the Pods and with people’s permission access the Realizing this dichotomy is what makes the data they need for certain tasks. complements of Web3 and metaverse so enticing. While metaverse solutions like those Inrupt exhibits just one of the many different from Meta, Epic, or NVIDIA, try to tackle technical approaches of Web3, but throughout creating a more unified experience, Web3 all of them, the desired outcome remains changes the way we treat data – creating consistent: to create a layer of transaction and an undercurrent of provenance, veracity, trust across the web by making different parties and value, that brings gravity to boundlessly the arbiters of their own data. The underlying creative spaces like the metaverse. data framework is what supports a range of capabilities from “owning” a pair of digital shoes Founded by World Wide Web inventor Tim to authenticating identity and more, while still Berners-Lee, Inrupt is one of many companies remaining secure. In other words, activities working towards Web3. By associating data with that occur in metaverses may – and often will – the individual rather than the platform, it seeks be enabled by Web3. As such, Web3 is a critical, to let people consistently carry their information and necessary, complement that will bind our with them around the digital world. In late 2020, next internet together. Introduction // WebMe // Programmable World // The Unreal // Computing the Impossible 31