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Bret Victor, beast of burden
worrydream.comI do not think it is hyperbole to say the internet is the most important invention of the last 100 years, and very likely might be the most important invention of the next 100 years. It is currently about to be controlled by five companies, and they make all the money and have all the power. I believe we need countervailing technologies that allow ... See more
Nilay Patel • Chris Dixon Thinks Web3 Is the Future of the Internet — Is It? - The Verge
The publication-less internet is an absolute Petri dish of idiotic shit, and for every Discourse Blog or Defector (pretty good, trying our best, really just want to give people good and true things to read) there is a far larger and angrier The Free Press (doing a low-effort 2010 Fox News impression in service of the same general goal of bigotry), ... See more
Jack Crosbie • Soon Will Come a Day That None of This Exists
Web3 is the internet owned by the users and builders, orchestrated with tokens.
Not Boring by Packy McCormick • The Web3 Debate
The ability to exit with your data intact is a core tenant of web3; web3 turns your data into your personal, programmable property.
Eileen Isagon Skyers • Dirt: Are we post-platform?
The web hasn’t had its artisanal moment. Right now, giant, ad-based networks created by six men that everyone begrudgingly uses with diminishing emotional returns, control the vast majority of the web.
Sari Azout • Notes on Scale + Quality
Joe examines many problems with the internet giants of today (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Netflix) and how they take advantage of the individuals who use their platforms, stating, “By addicting us to their systems they keep us sellable.” He continues to describe the misalignment of incentives which has resulted in humans becoming the product as... See more
Joseph Lubin • Blockchain Explained: How Web 3.0 Will Create New Business Models
In our time of huge populations exposed continuously to reproduced voices, images, and words used for commercial and political profit, there are too many people who want to and can invent us, own us, shape and control us through seductive and powerful media.
Ursula K. Le Guin • Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books
All men, Locke argued, are born equal, with a natural right to life, liberty, and property; to protect those rights, they erect governments by consent. Slavery, for Locke, was no part either of a state of nature or of civil society. Slavery was a matter of the law of nations, “nothing else, but the state of war continued, between a lawful conqueror
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