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Digital gold: $30 – $70T

Culture is made of humans, and A.I. doomsdayers haven't explained why we'll all fall in love with A.I.-made creative work, when there is so much evidence to the contrary

Unlike Facebook’s products today, it’s anticipating that Meta’s users, developers, and creators will be able to pick up and leave -- or “rage quit” -- more easily, and take all of their assets with them, if Meta shifts from attract to extract.

It’s difficult now to remember how confusing computers, let alone the Internet, were for most users in the mid-90s. Even by 1997, only 35% of US households had a computer. For many of those early adopters, the value proposition of the Internet, most importantly email, was compelling, but ‘getting online’ was so time-consuming and complicated that... See more

The technology behind OpenSea is not quite “OpenSea keeps a list, in Excel, of who owns which NFTs.” The underlying list is kept on the blockchain; it’s just that OpenSea can modify its version of the list however it wants, and its modifications are in practice pretty binding. And in fact there are regular rounds of stories in which (1) some... See more