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

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.

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.

Unadorned proselytizing might have been appropriate during the 2017-20 era of Web 3. Perhaps even up to Dec 21. But in 2024 it rings too hollow. Too blinkered. Too naive. (And Chris is, I'm sure, anything but naive).