This article is quite forceful in laying out the metaphor from cherry picking suitable historical events. The computing primarily is because Moore’s law, i.e.,

This article is quite forceful in laying out the metaphor from cherry picking suitable historical events. The computing primarily is because Moore’s law, i.e., the continuous lowering of computing hardware. With the dropping costs of hardware, coming the proliferation of software, then at certain generic integration point, naturally some major players pop out: Instruction set Operating system Internet Web It’s then a matter of who can be the right pint to capature the market opportunity and become the winner. The article tries to fit this process with open sourcing metaphor. But open source has little matching properties with this process. It’s more like the software abstraction always goes higher and higher therefore the previous winners naturally loses their advantage when the world moving to build new things on a different basis. Crypto network, how it’s connected to this process is not clear to me. In the end, there is no competing of centralization vs. decentralization. They always coesist. All the crypto buzzword is just a slogan for financial industry to adopt open data exchange protocols. And to equate crypto network or blockchain with decentralization is about as deceptive as calling internet an open network for information exchange.