july

“The medium is the message” - I think about this Marshall McLuhan quote

When a new technology offers new ways to distribute content - we first often take what we know map it directly to it

E.g. the TV was first introduced - TV show a picture of a radio playing radio

It takes time to understand the medium

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

what’s the most recent example of this?

Stay Curious // iixii // Lazer Technologies // Prev: CoinDesk, Roc Nation // based

USDC is potentially another good example. "Scan" a dollar and put it onchain

But the dollar is a unit of account that has power due to old-world reasons. There hasn't been enough time to see really weird experiments around units of account, like CPI stable currencies

Excited for a century of chain-driven economics

When smartphones first came into existence people made horrid websites throwing everything and the kitchen sink into mobile websites thinking people would use software on mobile like web