The year is 2030. You live in rural Montana in a cabin with your spouse and 3 children. You wake up, pour yourself a cup of hot coffee, and check your social networks to see what your favorite creators are up to. Your favorite funk band has launched a new NFT project -- limited edition album art-- to raise money for their upcoming album. You buy one, helping them rent a recording studio in SoHo, and earning a stake in their global streaming royalties and ticket sales. This is displayed in your crypto wallet (it’s just called a wallet now), so all of your friends can see the cool bands you support. Win-win.
Thanks for sharing this Greg. My friends and I are Physicians with creative tendencies. Actually a couple of us were connected on TRWIH Discord! Cheers
I loved this essay—thank you for sharing. I feel where you're coming from, especially being raised in rural Montana. I'm excited to see what the future holds.
What happens if you submit the project but it is not approved by the company (and you don't get paid) even though you delivered what's required? Or what happens if you are a company, and the developer you hired also sold the widget they developed to your competitor?
It sounds cool, but very clearly written by a man who never had to do or think about childcare in his life (other than on an ad-hoc basis). Obviously this is just a brief snippet, but for most working mothers (and some fathers), arranging childcare is as central to everyday life as work is, because without childcare, no work gets done. Does it get paid out of the wallet as well, and perhaps the nanny flies in? Let's hope the future is more inclusive...
"You rest easy, knowing that tomorrow there will be another opportunity for fulfilling, well paid work, collaborative passion projects, and supporting the creators you care about."
For me, this is a perfect way to describe the web 3.0 vision.
Like web 2.0 is making sure that everything you could want is at your feet - but you have to spend a lot of effort searching for it - as an individual, as a creative - constantly, I'm sifting through a needle in a haystack. It's part of the work, but right now, it's a lot of grunt work - searching, vetting, putting yourself out there.
for web 3.0 - what if the most meaningful experiences found you? what if every day you found the opportunities that you didn't have to vet, that you were into, that seemed like they were made for you? Maybe we could relax, we could have coffee instead of constantly - advertising, vetting, pulling teeth - to get the opportunities that specifically, we'd be an excellent fit for?
A Day in the Life of a Crypto-Fueled Future
Thanks for sharing this Greg. My friends and I are Physicians with creative tendencies. Actually a couple of us were connected on TRWIH Discord! Cheers
Visualised very well Greg ☺️👍
Seems like a pretty interesting future.
I loved this essay—thank you for sharing. I feel where you're coming from, especially being raised in rural Montana. I'm excited to see what the future holds.
What happens if you submit the project but it is not approved by the company (and you don't get paid) even though you delivered what's required? Or what happens if you are a company, and the developer you hired also sold the widget they developed to your competitor?
I've been thinking about exactly that passion project for a while...if there's anyone that knows DAOs and wants to chat hmu -> twitter @andresfguerral
IMO this is 2023, not 2030, shit will be waaaaay weirder in 2030
It sounds cool, but very clearly written by a man who never had to do or think about childcare in his life (other than on an ad-hoc basis). Obviously this is just a brief snippet, but for most working mothers (and some fathers), arranging childcare is as central to everyday life as work is, because without childcare, no work gets done. Does it get paid out of the wallet as well, and perhaps the nanny flies in? Let's hope the future is more inclusive...
"You rest easy, knowing that tomorrow there will be another opportunity for fulfilling, well paid work, collaborative passion projects, and supporting the creators you care about."
For me, this is a perfect way to describe the web 3.0 vision.
Like web 2.0 is making sure that everything you could want is at your feet - but you have to spend a lot of effort searching for it - as an individual, as a creative - constantly, I'm sifting through a needle in a haystack. It's part of the work, but right now, it's a lot of grunt work - searching, vetting, putting yourself out there.
for web 3.0 - what if the most meaningful experiences found you? what if every day you found the opportunities that you didn't have to vet, that you were into, that seemed like they were made for you? Maybe we could relax, we could have coffee instead of constantly - advertising, vetting, pulling teeth - to get the opportunities that specifically, we'd be an excellent fit for?
Good read
I feel web3 might disconnect more than ever before from the “real” world
Well, it is a pinky-shiny future, but yes, we got the idea and maybe true!
How many people are employed by Walmart and Amazon? 40million? 150 million?