But here’s an old thing I wrote on hyperlinks when I was high on Memex visions in 2009.
Maybe I can write a sequel, the Rhetoric of the Split.
Conversation
Someone make a Sankey diagram based blockchain explorer. At the very least it will improve Sankey literacy for climate awareness. You can split me a royalty for the idea. See how natural the language is? “Link to me” —> “split to me.”
4
34
Prediction: MetaMask will add a messaging function. You already have an address book. You’re probably doing splits with them. Why go to Signal or wherever? Mutisigs will develop attached group discussion fora. Messaging companies may acquire wallet companies. Or vice versa.
12
5
50
Your main transactional (but not custodial) wallet will be your identity/social, replacing email and phone number.
1
2
29
Venmo has already created a weird social network around Web2 payments. But Web3 is the natural home for the idea. On Venmo, it’s vaguely voyeuristic, like Glassdoor reviews. But on Web3 such things may have a healthier valence.
3
28
This is probably going to be the big ideological divide.
I think *decentralized* artificial digital scarcity is a great invention. Incentivizes production without empowering aggregators too much. I think aggregation theory will be weakened or reversed by Web3. twitter.com/MattAlhonte/st
This Tweet is unavailable.
3
1
44
A general pattern of question I’m getting as in every tech futures conversation I’ve ever had, is “How is Web3 thing X different from obvious analogical old thing Y?”
Anchoring on the most obvious analogy tends to minimize distinctions and magnify similarities.
1
3
34
The snark form of this is perversely self blinding, as in “X, you invented X”
“Rideshare with published routes”… “public transit you invented public transit” (treating app based failing as a rounding error).
Thing is *you choose your anchors, you choose your blindness*
1
1
41
This is why I don’t engage “how is it different from X” whether motivated by sincere curiosity or bad-faith trolling.
You chose your anchor. I don’t have to. I may offer alternate anchors, but I don’t have to correct the invisibilities of your frame. That’s a futile battle.
2
2
53
Replying to
There’s no line. They’re not mutually exclusive. Curiosity can be stuck in a rut like any behavior.
Replying to
Fair fair. I’m following this entire thread of urs to understand the whole phenomenon. Basically living it through ur experiments. This is amazing what ur doing (atleast for people like me) 😃
1

