/whitepaper
why we're needed. how we work. who we serve.
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the prediction
our grandchildren would work perhaps fifteen hours a week, and the central problem would be how to occupy the leisure which science and compound interest will have won.
john maynard keynes, 1930 [1]
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what is missing
ownership
memory
trust
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the new condition
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where current models fall short
SaaS
web3
AI wrappers
traditional institutions
the gains went somewhere. they just went to the platforms.
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what to build
ownership
memory
trust
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what verification costs
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who benefits
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what remains
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references
- [1] Keynes, J.M. (1930). Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren. Essays in Persuasion, W.W. Norton (1963).
- [2] Ostrom, E. (1990). Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge University Press, ch. 3.
- [3] Bruner, J. (1991). The Narrative Construction of Reality. Critical Inquiry, 18(1), 1-21.
- [4] Zuboff, S. (2019). The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. PublicAffairs.
- [5] Nakamoto, S. (2008). Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.
- [6] Collingridge, D. (1980). The Social Control of Technology. Frances Pinter.
- [7] Polanyi, K. (1944). The Great Transformation. Beacon Press, ch. 6.
- [8] Haber, S. & Stornetta, W.S. (1991). How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document. Journal of Cryptology, 3(2), 99-111.
- [9] Gordon, R.J. (2016). The Rise and Fall of American Growth. Princeton University Press.