Is the following a good analogy?
1. The Internet aspires to be neutral infrastructure for communication.
2. Permissionless blockchains aspire to be neutral infrastructure for computation.

Head of research at a16z crypto.
Professor, Columbia University.

Putting myself in the skeptic’s shoes, I would ask a follow up about why we need neutral computation (it’s not as obvious as needing neutral communication). But otherwise, I think this is a great analogy!

Yes, you’re completely right about that. I didn’t think of that!

Yup, absolutely. But gotta take it one step at a time!
(Btw I'm not sure the importance of neutral communication infrastructure was so obvious for the first 20-30 years of the Internet)