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I'm not 100% disagreement, but I'd love to see a little more evidence (or at least reasoning) for "The best of what works will win". To start, here's my counte
by orzig 5y ago
I'm not 100% disagreement, but I'd love to see a little more evidence (or at least reasoning) for "The best of what works will win".
To start, here's my counter-argument: We're almost exactly 6 years from the release of bitcoin, and it's still dominant by market cap. We either nailed it the first time or the best has not (yet?) won. We're 50 years into computing and the dominant operating systems are from the same companies that dominated ~40 years ago. Did we top out on ideas then?
- jasfi 5y agoWeb 3 is far bigger than Bitcoin alone. VC money is pouring into Web 3 companies, so I'd say we haven't seen too much of what's coming just yet. It's actually really interesting that you make a comparison to operating systems. I helped get ReactOS started in the late 90s, because Windows was so dominant and there was a tremendous lock-in effect because of the software and drivers that were Windows only. However I still think a clone was not the best direction (I left the project ages ago), and that interfaces to other OSs such as Linux are better. Although I didn't come to this conclusion immediately, mainly because driver APIs seemed difficult to abstract to another OS. That said, Linux has made tremendous strides and WINE has helped it along. With Web 3 you don't have that lock-in effect, so the ideas are flowing more freely. That's why I think Web 3 is different to the OS analogy.
- i14 5y agoWell, getting people to change what they use takes time. And it’s hard to compete with big players.
- onetokeoverthe 5y ago