Crypto Can’t Build a Better Internet

For all its utopian trappings, web3 tech like cryptocurrency only deepens the problem of elite control over the internet. We have an alternative.

Few predictions have aged as badly as those made about the emancipatory power of the internet. Newspaper columnists fawned over “Twitter revolutions” taking place in the Middle East, open-source software breaking down traditional property relations, and “massive open online courses” replacing outmoded education systems around the world. That era is over. There are no more […]

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