
Blockchain Chicken Farm

For decades we’ve assumed that online items were less valuable than physical ones, and internet participation was more about connecting the physical to the digital and managing your physical life online. With NFTs, that responsibility has changed. Not only has the digital world been completely untethered from the physical world, but we are now able... See more
Jonathan Glick • America Onchain: "You've Got Scale?"
(b) Sneakernet: Amazon doesn’t have things stocked, but Alibaba does. You can’t use the apps you relied on, and acquiring things requires more prowling. We call suppliers in China to get you the things Amazon has out of stock and send them to you.
Daniel Gross • The Giant Job Upload
Agriculture was a tremendous invention – it got people fed and freed them to do many things. But agriculture – taken to the extreme in the pursuit of profit leads to a sick and obese population and industrialized farms with little regard for the environment or animals. And in response to that, we now have amazing artisanal and healthy food choices ... See more
Sari Azout • Notes on Scale + Quality
Patrick Higgins: We no longer basically have the right to resell media that we buy, if we buy it in a digital format instead of a physical format. We no longer really have the unrestricted right to repair our physical devices if they've got software involved, versus previously. And so where our rights have been diminished there, I'm interested in t... See more