Does Web 3.0 Care What People Want? What Society Needs?
What the hell is going on, why should I care, and is this above the line for certain NBA owners?
Most people don't value technology, they value their lives and their loves.
Most people value convenience over privacy, free access over staked ownership, consumption over creation, and watching from the stadium instead of being on the field.
They value what the technology does for them... and for each a story as unique as their fingerprint.
Which is why excitement about the technology itself, in our startups or in our sci-fi, is of little interest to most people. We need to speak to people in their language, plainly. We need to truly know and love our people and solve their problems, we need to love making things easier for them, and most especially love giving them more time, more value, more impact with their lives, and more freedom to invest their time where they choose.
To scale with Web3, to get to Web 3.1, we need to understand where most people are. But we don't need to FUD them, misrepresent risks, or speak in tongues. We can't maintain the hypocrisy when talking about decentralization that is characterized by the centralization of power in the hands of the few. We went from DeFi to ReFi... it's time to all get back to DeFi, to work together to figure out how to really make Web 3.0 work for humanity.
This is why I am coming out of my 'working retirement' to advocate for “us” over “me.” To advance my vision for the better world that is still within our grasp … if we can work smartly together. To ‘Waymake’ new opportunities for self organizing groups of people to actually co-own what they create. To easily form into teams, into guilds, into entrepreneurial human capital, into community organization, and into a professional network that puts our shared values into action, for ourselves, for our kids, for each other, and for the world.
I'm doing Web 3.1 as a virtual unconference, because I once again see a technology revolution that needs to be human-centric, to include human voices, to be designed to support and facilitate ethical values in action - especially with accountability, integrity, and mutuality.
The Web 3.1 unconference is also the first step towards a new kind of professional network, one that is co-owned by its members, that stands for things, that values 'we' as much as 'me', that works together in service of co-elevating humanity through a more inclusive, wisdom based economy.
Over the coming weeks leading up to March 1, 2022 we will dive deeper into these conversations and discuss what we might do together to shape the wave of this next sociotechnology revolution.
I invite you to join me in this important world defining conversation that is Web 3.1, where we work together to figure out, "what will it take to deliver on the promise of Web 3?"
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