Reading all the hot takes on crypto/web3 going “but what use case does it solve?” and mostly thinking to myself that these folk have such confidence in their opinions.
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The nice thing about reading history is that it repeatedly (and I mean REPEATEDLY) disabuses you of the notion that tech needs a clear use case in its infancy.
I put myself in the shoes of mistaken commentators and mostly think “hmm, yeah, that take makes sense.”
It’s humbling.
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It’s not just tech, is it? Everywhere you look, things get made first then people find ways to use them to solve problems they have. It makes sense that this would be the case. Imagine having a problem first then trying to solve it. By the time you solve it, your problem is 💥
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It’s so nice that us humans are gifted with imagination and we can dream up potential realities and design for them. So that if that reality ever comes to pass, we’re ready! We’re prepared!
Look: Neal Stephenson & Asimov imagined the future we now live in. Imagination’s awesome
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Beautifully put, but so difficult to internalise!
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There’s a chapter in Cryptonomicon, “Why”, that so presciently predicted how folks would react to crypto tech being used for libertarian ends
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