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Joshua Schachter
- We can now turn massive aggregations of small contributions into things of lasting value. This fact, key to our current era, has been a persistent surprise. At every turn, skeptical observers have attacked the idea that pooling our cognitive surplus could work to create anything worthwhile.
from Cognitive Surplus: How Technology Makes Consumers into Collaborators by Clay Shirky
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- In crypto, an entire generation of alienated tech workers saw potential to have their cake (create a better, decentralized internet) and eat it too (get very wealthy).
from What Happened to the New Internet? by Bryan Lehrer
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- The wealth of information stored on-chain could even upend markets as big as search and discovery. A range of matching algorithms will be enabled by the openly queryable nature of decentralized identities; whereas previously, matching algorithms could only be developed by whoever had access to our data. Additionally, until now we’ve only been able ... See more
from Decentralized Identity: Your Reputation Travels With You - a16z crypto by Scott Kominers
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