SIDEBAR: 2 Thoughts About Blockchain = Internet of the 90's
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2 min readDec 17, 2018
- Blockchain now isn’t like the Internet of the 90’s. It’s more like the era before there was a Windows interface, and in order to get a word document formatted, you had to quasi-code in DOS on a black screen with green glowing letters (like Matthew Broderick in “War Games” or Sandra Bullock in “The Net”).
- When the Internet was a new concept, people kept asking “how does it work”? No one asks how the Internet works anymore. It’s assumed. You’re at work, you’re chatting on the phone with a client, and you send them an email — you expect them to get it within a few seconds. You have a vague idea of how it works, but you no longer ask: “How did the email get through the Internet?” It doesn’t really matter because it got there. You only care if it DIDN’T get there. ONE day, the Blockchain or some evolutionary form of it, will be like that too. You will just assume it works. You’ll just use it. Today is not that day. Today you still need to be at least a quasi-coder to have any idea what the Blockchain is. BUT, at least now we have the internet to look up stuff and click on links when we need more info/ context.
