> where the topic of the day is distributed trustless computing No one in my circles talks about those things. Even the vast majority of crypto investors don't

> where the topic of the day is distributed trustless computing No one in my circles talks about those things. Even the vast majority of crypto investors don't give a shit about "distributed" or "trustless" or "computing". The topics of the day are: 1. climate change 2. automation (especially logistics and war) 3. the tension between nationalism and globalization (both with respect to communication, commodity extraction, manufacturing, knowledge production, ...). Flip the ordering of 1 and 3 if you'd like. > old institutions like banks, notaries, record-keeping (Hansards etc) could be obsolete I can't think of a single less exciting thing to say about the future. The average person uses a notary perhaps a few times in their life. The average bank provides the average person with a nearly flawless UX. Anything that replaces a bank will look like a digital bank account and behave like a digital bank account and probably also be regulated like a digital bank account. For almost all people, this is literally equivalent to staying "by 2122 the IBM COBOL mainframes powering banks will have been replaced with Java running on commodity hardware". Even if it's true... who cares? > knowledge becomes distributed and every human commands one or more nodes in a constant system of cross-referencing - clients and servers cease to be relevant as a concept, information is just a pool you dip into as needed (with helpful AI assistants to bring things to your attention and/or demand your attention). It's not 1999 anymore; we know how the WWW turned out.