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Why has interoperability failed in the past? Why don’t we have it today?

• hiq 5y ago
  Why would we get it thanks to blockchains?
  • mjdesa 5y ago
    Because they’re open ledgers. I think of blockchain like I do JavaScript / JSON. Are the perfect? No. But there’s a lot of time and energy being put into them and sometimes that’s all you really need to get things going.
    • hiq 5y ago
      > Because they’re open ledgers. As I explained in another comment in the same thread, it's a far cry from ensuring interoperability. The term "open ledger" is also misguiding since it's just an open ledger of whatever you want to put there, it doesn't necessarily reflect even a representative part of a whole system that would provide some kind of financial service. As another commenter explained regarding video ownership, there's also no incentive to move any old and non-interoperable system there to begin with.
• oblio 5y ago
  Because the money and the interest is not in interoperability. It's in chunking everything in small bits and selling every small bit repeatedly.