Maybe the feeling that things are in decline is just a bias against new forms of media. Socrates thought writing destroyed the mind, and the novel as a literary form was originally considered vulgar. My suspicion is it’s just the age-old pattern of disliking new things.
Furthermore, more wallets should support multiple blockchains such as Avalanche and Solana. This is a tremendous amount of engineering work, so it's not to be taken lightly.
The real value of data portability is in at least four major social consequences:-Giving us tools to track the impact of creative work as it’s shared, used, and monetized in the farthest reaches of the internet-Enabling us to share far more data with platforms to improve performance and recommendations-Incentivizing public data sets that will... See more
Increasingly, traditional corporations have “orbital stakeholders,” or participants that blur the line between internal and external members of the organization. Consider Apple and the developers that create App Store Apps, YouTube and creators, or Uber and their drivers — participants are contributing to companies’ bottom lines from the outside,... See more
What follows is intended as a framework to understand how the properties of NFTs might make them particularly useful—or useless—in our own daily lives. NFTs are special, I believe, for two reasons: they correlate to our own unique traits as biological organisms, and they allow us to turn nearly any good into an investment with resale value.
There are studies showing that productivity per hour drops after forty hours per week, and turns negative at higher levels — but these are studies of dangerous factory jobs, or monotonous call-center work. And I don’t doubt it. If I spent a hundred hours a week on the assembly line at a munitions factory, I’d probably end up dropping a missile on... See more