What’s amazing is that the difficulty of creating this situation of “fully democratized information” is entirely economic rather than technological. What I describe with books is close to what Google Books and Amazon already have. But of course, universal free access to full content horrifies publishers, so we are prohibited from using these system... See more
Polina: If there’s one thing you can do right now to improve both your personal and professional life, it’s this: Eliminate absolute statements from your vocabulary. Absolute statements are those that assume an idea or a statement is absolutely, undeniably, 100% true. Words like “everyone,” “no one,” “never,” “always,” “love,” and “hate.” T his typ... See more
-Equity: Companies (Google, Amazon, Facebook) captured value during the internet revolution by controlling and containing the data originating from their platforms
This may just be a nicer way of phrasing Zuckerberg’s clown car comment. Twitter happened upon a once-in-a-generation shift: the Internet was changing everything about the flow of information. Twitter stumbled into such a massive opportunity that it couldn’t evolve quickly enough to ride the wave.
* Solve problems for people, make their lives easier, have a reason to exist in the marketplace, if you're just going to be like everyone else then what's the point?
Blockchain technology will enable this vision. Virtual worlds and economies will be owned and controlled by creators and consumers. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), DeFi, social tokens, decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs)—all are central components of this future.