But many of the web 3.0 advantages are hard to adopt as a large, existing, web 2.0 company. The big ideas: ownership, collaboration, and community are new foundational principles.

And in exchange for the work that these users are doing, they’re earning an actual ownership stake in the platform itself.

Mass SaaS seems to work best when consumers can: plan their frequent consumption ahead of time and enjoy a bundled set of tiered offerings, all at fixed prices.

As I’m thinking through this, if there is this sort of bifurcation, is it possible that VR actually does end up becoming more important and more meaningful in this future then AR, where AR is a way to keep in touch with the virtual world when you’re out and about, but actually you’re going to want to spend more and more time actually fully immersed... See more

I’m a criminal-defense lawyer, a law professor, and a mother of two. When my children were young and I was offered professional opportunities that separated me from them—a case hundreds of miles from home, an academic presentation out of state—I took them. The work gave shape and purpose to my life. And yet. Because time is finite, deficits added u

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To build up “a huge archive of thinking and feeling” seems a necessary project for any artist, even without publication as the eventual goal.

Limiting the accumulation of power and economic benefits in the hands of a small number of corporations;

Though the interface looks a little messy, it’s actually relatively simple, a quality that Instagram has abandoned under Facebook’s ownership in favor of cramming in every feature and format possible.

The university is an invention – there’s nothing fundamentally inevitable about it. The university is also an object of culture – universities play different roles in society and economy and life in different parts of the world, and at different points in history. The university is arbitrary in this way, but it’s also fundamental to the way the wor... See more