The Redecentralized Web

03/18/20 • 34 min

Data monopolies and abuses of privacy are only some of the flaws of Web 2.0. Muneeb Ali, co-founder and CEO of Blockstack, tells Azeem Azhar how the emerging Web 3.0 solves these challenges and gives users more control over their digital existence.

In this conversation, they discuss:

Why property rights and privacy are intimately linked.
The emergence of a novel app ecosystem on the new internet.
The role of the new crypto economy in the transformation of the internet.

Further reading:

“Tech Thinks It Has a Fix for the Problem it Created: Blockchain” (The New York Times, 2018)
“The Emergence of Web 3.0” (Hackernoon, 2019)
“Can’t Be Evil vs. Don’t Be Evil” (Exponential View newsletter, 2020)
“Beyond Digital Gold” (Exponential View newsletter, 2020)

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In this conversation, they discuss:

Why property rights and privacy are intimately linked.
The emergence of a novel app ecosystem on the new internet.
The role of the new crypto economy in the transformation of the internet.

Further reading:

“Tech Thinks It Has a Fix for the Problem it Created: Blockchain” (The New York Times, 2018)
“The Emergence of Web 3.0” (Hackernoon, 2019)
“Can’t Be Evil vs. Don’t Be Evil” (Exponential View newsletter, 2020)
“Beyond Digital Gold” (Exponential View newsletter, 2020)

@muneeb
@azeem
@exponentialview

Exponential View newsletter

Previous Episode

Welfare in the Exponential Age

Existing social institutions are not adequate to meet the challenges of the exponential age. Social entrepreneur and author, Hilary Cottam, proposes a radical overhaul of the welfare system. In discussion with Azeem Azhar, she also argues that we must reject the old economic model for humanity, Homo econonomicus (guided by ration to maximize economic gains), and embrace Sapiens integra, a new theoretical human with stronger connections to nature and other humans.

In this conversation, they discuss:

The New Industrialists and their role in the social revolution.
How a switch from the mindset of efficiency to the mindset of care can transform our institutions.
The role of new technologies in this transformation.

Further reading:

“Radical Help” (Hilary Cottam, 2019)
“Revolution 5.0: A Social Manifesto” (Hilary Cottam, 2019)
“The Future of Public Service and Governance” (Exponential View podcast, 2018)

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Next Episode

Science Fights the Coronavirus

The exponential growth of COVID-19 is threatening to bring down the world economy. To understand the pandemic, Azeem Azhar chats with professor Yaneer Bar-Yam, President of the New England Complex Systems Institute, who worked on the response to Ebola with pioneering complex-systems mathematics.

In this conversation, they discuss:

Why we need to crush, rather than flatten, the curve.
What lessons the Ebola outbreak offers us for dealing with COVID-19.
What complexity mathematics offers beyond traditional epidemiological modelling.

Further reading:

“A Better Way: Building Capacity, Adaptation and Resilience” (Exponential View, 2020)
End Coronavirus: Map, Guidelines, Community (2020)
“Coronavirus: The Hammer and the Dance” (Tomas Pueyo, 2020)
“Transition to Extinction: Pandemics in a Connected World” (Yaneer Bar-Yam, 2016)

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Note: a previous version of this episode included an excerpted conversation with Dr. Adam Kucharski, author of “The Rules of Contagion: How Things Spread – and Why They Stop.” That excerpt has now been removed, and the full conversation with Dr. Kucharski can be found here: https://www.exponentialview.co/p/-modeling-the-pandemic.