Web3: Charting the Internet's Next Economic and Cultural Frontier

The co-author of the international bestseller Blockchain Revolution, Alex Tapscott, provides a comprehensive guide to navigating the next Internet revolution in his book Web3. It covers topics such as the metaverse, NFTs, DAOs, decentralized finance, and self-sovereign identity, and explains how these technologies will shape the future of the Internet.

Format: Hardback
Length: 336 pages
Publication date: 28 September 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc

The Web, and with it the Internet, are entering a new age. We've moved from the "Read-only Web," which had little functionality for interacting with content, to the "Read-Write Web," which offered seemingly endless collaborative opportunities, from sharing with our favorite people to shopping at our favorite brands. But the profusion of cyberattacks, data hacks, and online profiling have left many of us to view digital life as a Faustian bargain in need of a major rethink.

That rethink is Web3, the "Read-Write-Own Web" - a decentralized Internet where individuals own their own identities and can securely trade assets like money, securities, intellectual property, and art peer to peer. Made possible by blockchains, the foundational technology of Bitcoin, Web3 promises the biggest shake-up of business since the invention of double-entry bookkeeping in the Middle Ages. It is the Internet's new frontier.

In Web3, award-winning author and technology investor Alex Tapscott provides a cutting-edge guide to the Internet's next era. Covering everything from the metaverse and non-fungible tokens to DAOs, decentralized finance, and self-sovereign identity, this indispensable, forward-thinking book describes the building blocks and often hidden technologies that will be foundational to our cultural and economic progress.

Weight: 528g
Dimension: 162 x 237 x 33 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780063299955