Web3 Needs More Empathetic Tech
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Web3 Needs More Empathetic Tech
Web3's potential lies in its ability to work with and for culture. In this way, we must enable our products to both shape and be shaped by our collective narratives, values, and dreams. For web3 to achieve widespread adoption, it must transcend its role as a mere technological innovation and become entirely entwined with the development of culture.
Austin Robey • Decentralization & Desire: A web3 Cultural Blueprint
Kes added
Web3 technology represents a significant advancement, but its current use of capitalist language and metaphors can be alienating. By reimagining these metaphors, we can inspire more projects to utilise Web3 technology for the greater good
Anna Rose • The Metaphors We Organise By
Keely Adler added
Finally, I touch on a few other conceptual opportunities (DeFi, the economic self, and the power of pseudonymous identities), identify some cautions and concerns about the intersection of web3 and the social sector, and conclude with a list of ventures, solutions, and other things that maybe should be built in the future.
Banks Benitez • White Paper: Opportunities at the Intersection of Web3 and Social Change
sari added
Web3 is just another step forward. It will give rise to new institutions and social structures that will address the human need for safety, love, belonging, recognition, and self-actualizaiton. We should not assume our current institutions are the best humanity can do. What happens next is up to us.
Dror Poleg • The Token Society
sari added
Point being, these are human issues, which require human coordination to form solutions. We need technologists, lawyers, teachers, doctors marketers and governments -- all of whom are just organizations of “qualified” individuals to start thinking about web3 not as a solution to all of the worlds problems, but a new tool in our toolbox to use in cr... See more
LDF • you already get web3. no, really.
Keely Adler added
Web3 offers the opportunity for a meaningful course correction — a chance to reimagine the internet and build new platforms from first principles. But in order to do that, we need to agree on what those principles should be, and why.
Harvard Business Review • Web3 Is Our Chance to Make a Better Internet
Kat Fergerson added
If we continually root ourselves in base notions of fear, darkness, alienation, we in web3 are going to find ourselves struggling with the same things we struggle with today; people outside who are hyper-critical get the sense we’re not speaking to real problems.
Expanding Our Cultural Reference Points
Esther Eze added