So, all of this is rather like standing in front of a whiteboard in the early 1990s and writing words like interactive TV, hypertext, broadband, AOL, multimedia, and maybe video and games, and then drawing a box around them all and labelling the box ‘information superhighway’. That vision of all consumers everywhere being connected to something was... See more
In addition to the fact that barriers to entry are still a bit high for non-technical folks, it seems like there’s not much incentive for the average person to care about participating in web3 right now. Yes, there’s been a lot of mainstream attention on cryptocurrency and NFTs as an investment, but combined with its high-risk, that hardly seems... See more
One of the key metrics that’s changing is that it’s not just about eyeballs anymore, here in web 3.0, the real metrics are commerce. How many people purchase an NFT? How many people purchase a social token that gives you membership into a community? And then how many of them participate in that community and take some action in that community?
As the internet evolves, especially for us “very online people,” there’s a deepening sense that we are, together, becoming something beyond the scope of our original intentions. We are rapidly approaching a sum far greater and more mysterious than what we often perceive as its cold, mechanistic parts.
While we conventionally think of ourselves as... See more