My primary motivation for having a website was to "reserve" it for future. It's going to be nigh impossible to have a <firstname><lastname>.com in the future unless you have a very unique name.
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Might not be popular but if your first name is too common you can always change your first name (legally or not). Tons of people do it for the most arbitrary of reasons. Or who knows, maybe we will start seeing parents giving their children unique first names.
Another motivator is to write some notes that you can google in the future. Write down a tutorial as a part of learning which others can benefit from it.
If you create value, you almost always capture it in some way. Not always money, it could be a job referral.
I have nightmares of this future, where ChatGPT just pregenerates billions of firstname-lastname.coms and assigns them to you at birth as your destiny. "Welcome, human 12,435,428. You have been assigned the life of Mei MacIntyre. Flute and bagpipe training will commence at 36 months. Have a pleasant existence."
Wasn't there a similar sci-fi/fantasy short story, where it turned out the point of reincarnation was that before you could ascend, you had to live the life of every person who ever lived?
"The Egg" by Andy Weir, and it's even worse than The Martian
What was so bad about The Martian? (Edit: And did you like any of his books, like Project Hail Mary?)
I'm not sure, but kinda sounds like that Black Mirror episode about dating through reincarnating multiple times? Or maybe it was a simulation?
Eh, but why do we need it? I think given a mid term timescale (10ish years), there will likely be another layer of indirection added to the web experience, and people will start to shift from thinking in terms of specific domain names to some other mechanism of identification.
I’m sure it’ll still be possible to access websites using domain names, but I wouldn’t be surprised to hear something like “Dad why do you keep saying ‘.com’, nobody says that anymore. It’s embarrassing.”