Written by Julien Genestoux. Entrepreneur, Hacker, Investor & Advisor You should follow me on Bluesky and Farcaster
For centuries, "ownership" has been a legal concept, enforced by well, ... force, whether legal or arbitrary. It's also been a central theme in the Industrial Revolution and the emancipation of people worldwide. For better or worse, everything around us is "owned", from land to music or from animals (pets or cattle) to companies.
6 years ago, I wrote an article called The End of the Ad-Supported Web (please read it!). A lot of it is still right, and despite an ever-increasing presence of ads, we're getting worse and worse content and less privacy. The collapse is taking longer than I thought, but it is happening.
It is probably evident by now, but the recent AI "generators" are very good at creating content. Let's make it clear immediately: the "truth" battle is already lost. People and machines will be fooled repeatedly by fake content: we can't, and more importantly, we should not trust our senses anymore.
Over the past three months, the original cryptocurrency returned to the front scene after 18 months of disillusion. This is the consequence of 2 very unique properties.
I am, of course, referring to the latest wave of "AI" products like ChatGPT, Bard, and others. In the last 18 months, the world has been taken by surprise by how much progress has been made on the AI front, and computer software can now cover pretty well for flesh-and-bone software.
The internet is a big onion š§ . Itās made of layers slowly but surely stacked at every new iteration. The layers are themselves more or lessā¦
The Graph is a very ambitious and powerful web3 project. It is an indexing protocol for querying data from networks like EVM blockchainsā¦
Crypto had a bad rep. There are many reasons why, but I also think itās misunderstood, both by its critics (haters?) and fans (cultistsā¦
The arrival of Elon Musk as Twitterās new CEO has been a watershed moment in the history of Twitter. The company became private again, heā¦
Rather than write about web3 again, I want to write about web1: the 90's. At that time, I used something called Communicator. You can think of it as a suite of internet clients and applications. Of course, it had Navigator, a web browser, but also a Messenger for emails, a news client, and even a push system.
