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Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

Daniel Christian links to a Business Insider story (which may or may not throw up a paywall; it's getting impossible to predict these days) outlining the idea of web3, which blends distributed technologies and a cryptographic infrastructure (it's basically what I covered in my E-Learning 3.0 course in 2019). The idea is gaining increasing traction as the reputation of the existing centralized ad-supported social media internet continues to plummet. I'm still waiting for something to put it all together in a quality consumer-facing application; when that happens the future we've been slowly building to will suddenly arrive.

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