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I think decentralization has already "won the hearts and minds of developers." the question is, will it win the hearts and minds of consumers.
I think decentralization has already "won the hearts and minds of developers." the question is, will it win the hearts and minds of consumers.
So the answer is "It'll win the hearts and minds of consumers, if the other selling points win the hearts and minds of consumers by letting them do something the existing systems can't/won't"
Write an article about decentralization, post it on Medium. I feel like I am being trolled.
That article reads like one long logical fallacy and a whole heap of handwaving. It contrasts cathedral style development practices against blockchain, neatly attributing open-source, collaborative development solely to blockchain technologies. The very first section makes no sense - in the first era of the internet, decentralised protocols allowed companies like yahoo and google to win out while centralised entities…
Yes, it rose to prominence in the bbs era that preceded the big public success of the WWW.
I think decentralization has already "won the hearts and minds of developers." the question is, will it win the hearts and minds of consumers.
Honestly, most consumers don't know or care what decentralisation (or centralisation/federation/whatever) actually is. For them, if the product or service does what they need it to, that's fine. So the answer is "It'll win the hearts and minds of consumers, if the other selling points win the hearts and minds of consumers by letting them do something the existing systems can't/won't"
Agreed. So far the the focus as been getting the technology to work, and the sort of techies who can do that are generally not very good at figuring out what ordinary people need and how to sell it to them. Once the tech is good enough, we will see people who are good at the latter getting involved.
That article reads like one long logical fallacy and a whole heap of handwaving. It contrasts cathedral style development practices against blockchain, neatly attributing open-source, collaborative development solely to blockchain technologies. The very first section makes no sense - in the first era of the internet, decentralised protocols allowed companies like yahoo and google to win out while centralised entities…
> So presumably AOL rose to prominence in era zero? Yes, it rose to prominence in the bbs era that preceded the big public success of the WWW.
Sure, it rose to prominence before the likes of google, but not really in the first era of the internet. While it may well have preceded the 'big public success' of the world wide web, the internet had arguably already had a few different eras before then anyway. And equally based on open protocols like gopher and nntp.
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Honestly, most consumers don't know or care what decentralisation (or centralisation/federation/whatever) actually is. For them, if the product or service does what they need it to, that's fine. So the answer is "It'll win the hearts and minds of consumers, if the other selling points win the hearts and minds of consumers by letting them do something the existing systems can't/won't"
>So the answer is "It'll win the hearts and minds of consumers, if the other selling points win the hearts and minds of consumers by letting them do something the existing systems can't/won't" Agreed. So far the the focus as been getting the technology to work, and the sort of techies who can do that are generally not very good at figuring out what ordinary people need and how to sell it to them. Once the tech is goo…