Weird web3 energy - by Gordon Brander - Subconscious
The landscape of tech is essentially feudal. Each app builds a moat and walls to protect the hoard of data its peasants produce. This is both for reasons of protection, and power. How did this condition emerge?
What’s next for the web? I’ve spent a good chunk of my career trying to answer this question in practice, making the web do things it maybe shouldn’t, like mobile operating systems, and VR. This is a big question, so I’m tackling it in pieces: In “Why did the web take over desktop and not mobile?”, I try to understand why the web disrupted desktop computing, but not mobile. In “The state of the web”, I look at the web in 2021, making the web do apps, and the WebAssembly plot twist. In “Weird web3 energy”, I explore emerging distributed web efforts. In “Building new weblike things”, I…
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