I am brand new to Hive, but not new to crypto / blockchain.
With that said, prior to learning about the decentralizing nature of blockchain technologies, I was generally pessimistic about the future with respect to personal freedom, and technology’s ever-expanding assault on it. I was convinced that growing corporate and government power & 24/7 surveillance would eventually crush personal freedom and individual liberty.
However, in July 2018, after reading George Gilder’s book Life after Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy, my perspective changed 180-degrees. I realized that widespread decentralization of data will empower individuals to take control of their lives in innumerable ways.
The blockchain economy (i.e. ‘Web3’, or as Gilder refers to it, the ‘cryptocosm’) enables peer-to-peer transactions that will make corporations and governments less important and less powerful. Blockchain will do to Uber what Uber did to the cab companies. All of Uber can be replaced with open-source software and blockchain-based transactions and rating systems. Why does a rider need to pay Uber so that Uber can take a percentage before paying the driver?
I have created this community to hopefully spark robust discussion and content-sharing related to the pursuit and preservation of Liberty & Freedom.
In the coming days, I will be posting some of my thoughts about individual liberty & personal freedom; and I will re-post (here) some of the relevant things I’ve written about previously, in order to make them readily accessible to those who choose to join this community.
Thanks to decentralization, I firmly believe ‘the best of times’ lies before us. Let’s embark on that journey together!
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