Imagine someone told you in 1989 when all the internet did was email and ftp, that the internet was going to do a lot of other things but they didn't really know what yet.
There was still plenty that could be imagined in 1989 that the Internet could be capable of - there was none of this "it is just too unimaginable to even consider" nonsense.
E.g. there were plenty of dialup BBS services and things like Prodigy with GUI, chat, etc. in the 80s. It wasn't that much of a great leap to see how moving those types of things from proprietary networks to the Internet would occur.
DAOs are fantastically interesting and if you look into the ones that work, Vitalik’s ideas for Quadratic Voting, there’s a lot toucan imagine could happen there.
DAOs and NFTs are already incredible in my view, they are just in pre-alpha stage and everything is kind of a mess. But people see the pre-alpha and goes “this will never work”. I really disagree. I see for instance how DAOs and blockchain could help developers receive compensation for commits to open source software, creating a possibility for the commercialisation of open source that competes with even large companies. I know people who looked into this. And I hope it happens.
It would dramatically change the incentives if you could get as much or even more money from open source software as a developer, and even more so if you could colect royalties for your work wherever it’s used. The entire digital economy would change if you could have open source software that’s fully open, permission less and paid for.
richardwhiuk|3 years ago
hn_throwaway_99|3 years ago
E.g. there were plenty of dialup BBS services and things like Prodigy with GUI, chat, etc. in the 80s. It wasn't that much of a great leap to see how moving those types of things from proprietary networks to the Internet would occur.
kranke155|3 years ago
DAOs and NFTs are already incredible in my view, they are just in pre-alpha stage and everything is kind of a mess. But people see the pre-alpha and goes “this will never work”. I really disagree. I see for instance how DAOs and blockchain could help developers receive compensation for commits to open source software, creating a possibility for the commercialisation of open source that competes with even large companies. I know people who looked into this. And I hope it happens.
It would dramatically change the incentives if you could get as much or even more money from open source software as a developer, and even more so if you could colect royalties for your work wherever it’s used. The entire digital economy would change if you could have open source software that’s fully open, permission less and paid for.
Tao3300|3 years ago
In retrospect, that would have been a nice stopping point...