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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Not to miss the forest for the trees, but: e.g. statista.com/statistics/214 in % of US households with PCs goes from 8% in 1984 to 36% in 1997 to a booming 51% in 2000 (dotcom bubble).
— I believe use of smartphone or social media was faster than this, too.
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Well it depends on how you count the time period. A lot of what’s being built in crypto/web3 is really early, akin to work done in the preceding two decades before the PC boom.
The Dream Machine covers much of this period, and the innovations take a lot longer than I expected.
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I think that makes use of more hope than “but there haven’t been any use cases” does.
— Maybe the examples end up not being useful to predict whether web3 succeeds; but I think at this point most examples would count againt web3.
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I don’t actually mention any use cases on Twitter, but there are real use cases I can think of. Will move this discussion to chat.
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