The People's Platform
The foundational trade-off of the internet was to cast scarcity, consensus, and identity aside in favor of freedom and openness.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
Behind these conversations is a fundamental change of the digital age that applies to essentially every creative field: in the past, consumers bought and collected physical editions of creative work, creating a direct value exchange between fans, artists, and producers. Today almost all creative work is digitized and essentially rented — lowering
... See moreYancey Strickler • The old shit doesn't work anymore
The other obvious problem with today’s internet is the economic structure. Chris Anderson wrote a famous essay called “The Long Tail” back in 2004 that predicted the internet would make media businesses less hit-driven and improve the economics for niche creative people. He was right in one sense: the internet created many more niche communities an... See more
Chris Dixon • Words With Web 3’s King: An Interview With Chris Dixon
