You Are What You Own

 imagine writing a song and not only getting paid when others made money playing it at events, but enabling others to remix it permissionlessly with proceeds flowing back to you, all while collecting data on its usage that you could use to find professional opportunities while connecting to others with similar taste. 

The real value of data portability is in at least four major social consequences:-Giving us tools to track the impact of creative work as it’s shared, used, and monetized in the farthest reaches of the internet-Enabling us to share far more data with platforms to improve performance and recommendations-Incentivizing public data sets that will produ... See more

In other words, data portability represents a massive social shift in turning power from platforms to users, much as DAOs represent a transfer of power from companies to workers. Or rather, data portability represents a massive social shift in turning power from platforms to protocols, as users can only manage and transfer their data on top of univ... See more