What will it take to deliver the promise of Web 3.0?
Want to manifest that reality? Become a speaker/participant/leader at the Web 3.1 Unconference and invest in a community DAO / guild to make it so.
Questions are the secret force for unleashing incredible power. The “What will it take?” process pioneered by my mentor Bill Leider, is a terrific tool for making the unimaginable possible. To transcend our limiting beliefs and really open our minds to the art of the possible.
What will it take to deliver the promise of Web 3.0?
That is the question at the center of our Web 3.1 Unconference. The answers are many, and not all so clearly visible.
Yes, we will need scalable transaction volume at lower cost, strong security, greener technology, more individual's maintaining their own nodes / wallets / servers / finances, less market volatility, friendly regulation, improved user experiences, more paths to economic freedom, more stories of success, and so much more.
From our experience with earlier technology revolutions over the past 40 years, what it really takes is more people, well intentioned, and capable of waymaking paths into the future so that others may follow.
It takes people to educate others, early adopters to "suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune", to hack their way through the forest with machetes, to build roads and on-ramps, to support and guide those who come after. To demonstrate the art of the possible, to share the lessons learned from their experiences, and to ensure the technology is used for our better good, in service of our best selves. To advise community leaders, entrepreneurs, corporate executives, government representatives and so many others. To pledge to “AIM Higher, with Accountability, Integrity, and Mutual Support”.
This is why we are inviting all Web 3 educators, evangelists and advocates to join us for our upcoming Web 3.1 Unconference on March 1. In fact, if you are one, or you know one, please nominate them for a Patron level scholarship. (more on what that means in the weeks ahead, and on the form if you actually click through)
We believe that the sharing economy is becoming the co-ownership economy, and the creator economy is evolving into the co-creator economy. The invaluable benefit Web 3 will bring to society is to co-elevate us. To create more opportunities with less friction to foster win-win-win opportunities where you win, I win, and society wins.
We believe the higher purpose of the emerging technology of Web 3 is to shed the bonds of the world that prevent us from reaching our full potential. To stop being the product on platforms like Facebook, and to become partners. To more easily own our lives, our data, and the digital goods we purchase. This is one aspect of creating a better world for everyone, intentionally, by design. And we believe the focus of Web 3, and the stories we share, should be on what it does for humanity.
Yeah, the tech is cool. I'm keeping up my New Year’s resolution, losing weight boxing in my Quest headset, and using the same hardware to plan this event in a virtual conference room on Spatial. Way beyond what I envisioned with my Information Appliance startup in 1999.
But it's not about the tech. It's about what it can do for us...
We aren't here to judge those who are giddy about the new technology though, we are here to discuss this together. To advance the good applications and organizations who build them. To explore matters of ethics and integrity. To promote open standards that allow for innovation and economic freedom. To convene those who know we can design a better world, and we will design a better world, by figuring out and sharing with others how to do incredible things with the tools and services emerging under the rubric of Web 3. And going beyond what is, to what might be next when we humans are fully living in that future.
But as our tagline says, "the point is still people". And as we discovered the other night in talking with WordPress CEO/Founder Matt Mullenweg, maybe the point is doing it just one person at a time. Which is where we start now.
As we are finalizing our Unconference plan over the coming days, we are still seeking more input on what it should be, and how we should create structure it, what we should talk about, and what direction we will head.
Today, we are seeking our collaborators, our cohort, and the co-creators of this unconference, and the people from which our community will grow.
In addition to seeking the best educators, evangelists, and leaders of Web 3 to join us in forming this community, in promoting your ideas / perspectives / projects, we have several roles we are seeking to fill to make the unconference a success. This includes:
Unconference Topic/Track Leaders (aka Hosts/Curators)
Speakers and Sponsors
Virtual Open Space and World Cafe Facilitators
Organizations with similar visions and missions which we can amplify, support, and expand.
Answers, solutions, and unimaginable visions in response to the question of "What will it take to deliver on the promise of Web 3?"
If you have an interest in filling one of those roles or joining us, or know someone who should, please nominate yourself or them for a Patron Scholarship now so we might learn more and speak directly.
Are you in?
Please share this with your colleagues and friends who are active in or interested in amplifying the impact of Web 3.0.