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Remembe Fuller's quote "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete"

Remembe Fuller's quote "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete" Big tech is the existing reality and it can only be changed by making it obsolete. The digital technology for doing so is actually available (or can be refined rapidly). What is not available is the social technology: the attitude of governments and regulators, solid, honest-to-goodness business models, the education of the populace etc

58x14 5y ago
I fully expect our next cycle to be one of de-platforming, with this quote in support. Decentralized technology is rife with fraud and noise, but ENS is an exemplary preview of a Web3 future. Like SSO without a middleman. It's a far superior user experience (no password requirements, email verification, data leaks), and allows developers to bypass account management altogether when building a webapp. To me, it's glaringly obvious this is one of the most significant milestones in our transition to a better web.
- 1270018080 5y ago
  After cursory googling, it sounds like more blockchain nonsense. Just throwing buzzwords together and solving either a nonexistent problem, or solving it fundamentally worse than anything that already exists.
pjkundert 5y ago
Yes, this. Implementing centralized application rules on completely decentralized compute/networking foundations is now a thing. Let's say you want to build something like Mars Coin. It's gotta work reliably at the scale of billions of nodes, separated by minutes of transit time, at billions of aggregate transactions per second, at a cost below micro-cents per transaction. Without the possibility of being shut down by a government-scale bad actor. This is now becoming possible: https://perry.kundert.ca/range/finance/mars-coin/ https://perry.kundert.ca/range/finance/mars-coin/
smugglerFlynn 5y ago
I agree with the article’s thought about phase where “everyone understands the magic”, and I agree with your point about making reality obsolete. Problem is, Big Tech amasses great amount of resources to survive this event and delay own demise. Good luck competing when your innovation can be copied by tech giant in a matter of months, your price tag could be beaten overnight with dumping, and your business could be bought out to suffocate in the basements of Alphabet. Fortunately, our society both understands the dangers of monopolies, and has tools (regulations) to balance them out. Could anti-monopoly lawsuits happen that would force break big tech? That has happened in the past, see Bell System[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System
- the-dude 5y ago
  And https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft

58x14 5y ago

I fully expect our next cycle to be one of de-platforming, with this quote in support. Decentralized technology is rife with fraud and noise, but ENS is an exemplary preview of a Web3 future. Like SSO without a middleman. It's a far superior user experience (no password requirements, email verification, data leaks), and allows developers to bypass account management altogether when building a webapp. To me, it's glaringly obvious this is one of the most significant milestones in our transition to a better web.

1270018080 5y ago
After cursory googling, it sounds like more blockchain nonsense. Just throwing buzzwords together and solving either a nonexistent problem, or solving it fundamentally worse than anything that already exists.

pjkundert 5y ago

Yes, this. Implementing centralized application rules on completely decentralized compute/networking foundations is now a thing. Let's say you want to build something like Mars Coin. It's gotta work reliably at the scale of billions of nodes, separated by minutes of transit time, at billions of aggregate transactions per second, at a cost below micro-cents per transaction. Without the possibility of being shut down by a government-scale bad actor. This is now becoming possible: https://perry.kundert.ca/range/finance/mars-coin/ https://perry.kundert.ca/range/finance/mars-coin/

smugglerFlynn 5y ago

I agree with the article’s thought about phase where “everyone understands the magic”, and I agree with your point about making reality obsolete. Problem is, Big Tech amasses great amount of resources to survive this event and delay own demise. Good luck competing when your innovation can be copied by tech giant in a matter of months, your price tag could be beaten overnight with dumping, and your business could be bought out to suffocate in the basements of Alphabet. Fortunately, our society both understands the dangers of monopolies, and has tools (regulations) to balance them out. Could anti-monopoly lawsuits happen that would force break big tech? That has happened in the past, see Bell System[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System

the-dude 5y ago
And https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft