People make a big deal about "cloud computing" as if it's some big deal, but I've been using "cloud computing" since 1997. Back then it was called HoTMaiL (web-based e-mail, many years before it was acquired by Microsoft).

Let's start with the proposition that Web3 is just marketing bullshit. It sounds nice compared to what came before, and it even offers hints at a paradigm shift, but behind the words is the reality that BS is BS.

How do we move from the BS of Web3 to make Web3 what it truly needs to be from your perspective? For me, there are 3 points which need to be addressed:

• At a minimum, it needs to be decentralized in the way the Internet was meant to be: resilient enough to survive the impacts of a nuclear strike or a natural catastophe.

• When it comes to communication via e-mail, it has to be secure from start to finish, which was never a consideration when SMTP was established in the early days of the Internet.

• With KYC involved in everything, how do we divorce things like MAC Addresses and IEMI numbers from accounts so that there is some measure of privacy if not anonymity? If that divorce can't happen, could some layer be added where identifiers get scrambled first?

If the real Web3 can offer these things at a minimum, then I think maybe we have something closer to what you envision. If not, then we need to be honest with the situation you presented here and stop fooling ourselves.

Posted Using LeoFinance ^Beta