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Over time, though, the Model T was very much a victim of its own success: by massively expanding the market for cars and triggering the development of car-friendly infrastructure, Ford created openings for other car manufacturers that previously didn’t exist. A company like General Motors didn’t need to compete with Ford by building a Model T clone... See more

What is a Venture DAO?A Venture DAO is a community governed group that seeks to invest combined capital of the community.Venture DAOs stand out from traditional investment vehicles because they are typically egalitarian, transparent and meritocratic by design, lacking a single leader and instead relying on community voting and consensus.Because the... See more

Adobe, meanwhile, has already been partnering with a multitude of companies, including media orgs, on the Content Authenticity Initiative; this is a way to ascertain what images are originals, and which have been altered — you can check the veracity of an image on a dedicated website. All of this is built using cryptography and open source tools.... See more

Third, NFTs can include what are called smart contracts, or coded elements that can automatically take actions under certain conditions. The concept is of an automated and self-enforcing set of rules that can’t be ignored or skipped.

The State of FANGEach of the FANG companies is in a similar position in their respective industries: they haven’t so much disrupted incumbents as they have subsumed them:Facebook: The late David Carr, who first broke the news about Facebook’s Instant Articles initiative back in 2014, worried that “media companies would essentially be serfs in a... See more

Crashes aren’t only painful because of price declines, although it’s never fun to see your account balances slashed relentlessly, day after day. Crashes are also painful because belief drains from the market as quickly as cash does. And those who never believed in the first place rush in to fill the void with a chorus of schadenfreude-laced I told... See more

MembershipThe word ‘Membership’ has existed in Web2.0 for a long time. However, users’ privacy, data handling and ownership remain to be the key problems. Membership NFTs can potentially transform the membership experience by solving the mentioned problems.