Serendipitous connections become less likely as increased communication narrows our tastes and interests. Knowing and caring more and more about less and less. This tendency may increase productivity in a narrow sense while decreasing social cohesion.
The protocol layer still provides reliability of market governance, without requiring a central intermediary or arbiter. However, market infrastructure components are decentralized and may be owned across various players in the ecosystem. This decentralisation allows a greater degree of customisation in market infrastructure while also allowing sha... See more
What’s a messaging experience that’s even more engaging than WhatsApp? An obvious improvement would be speed. WhatsApp is pretty responsive, but maybe you can make it even faster. What else?
ontextualizing information explains why you’ve earned or bought an artefact. Earning an NFT for a contribution to a project, for example, should provide context about why you earned it and what skills you demonstrated.
The way China has built out its social infrastructure is, in at least this respect, more logical. WeChat owns the dominant social graph, and it acts as an underlying social infrastructure to the rest of the Chinese internet... Rather than duplicate the social graph of everyone, which WeChat owns, other apps can focus on what they do best, which mig... See more