Shiv
@shivmalik
I think that @cdixon 's book - Read, Write, Own - is worth reading. But there is an obvious flaw. A flaw that is probably be minor enough to let the book survive in the long term, but means that today it doesn't land today. I kept wanting to close it. It just wasn't honest. readwriteown.com
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Shiv
@shivmalik
Yes, it's a wonderful potted history of the internet from Web 1->3. A lovely homage to the early days of the internet and full of "what may have beens" if corporate America hadn't dug its snout so far into the world wide web and inevitably sought to turn human connection into revenue.
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Shiv
@shivmalik
But the most important sections, the ones about Web 3, and what they future holds, are far too much of a normative, proselytizing, essay. Too many 'should's, 'could's and 'might be's about Web 3. Too much of an exercise in dreamy evangelism rather than what is very much needed: serious circumspection.
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Shiv
@shivmalik
We've been through too many crash and burns, too many scams - scams that have been perpetrated right at the heart of the crypto ecosystem - for well-meaning people with integrity who still believe in the space to adopt Chris's evocations wholesale. The time for unbounded positive ideation for Web3 has long passed.
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@shivmalik
We needed a good dose of introspection and skepticism. What we needed from Chris was a reckoning from one of crypto's true a believers, rather than a simple rallying cry for the promise of what the future might hold.
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@shivmalik
We are undoubtedly, as Chris regularly reminds us, "early" to crypto/blockchain/decentralised computing. But that's not excuse enough to simply gloss over the hundreds of millions of losses that have been generated by scammers and charlatans let alone speculators. I hoped he would have taken all of this on earnestly.
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