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The Future of the World. No, Really.
Protocols, Nations, and Companies
- By Keith Teare • Issue #288 • View online
Will Protocols (Web3) or Big Tech (Web2) or Nation States (17th Century) own the future? Quite the debate raging in Foreign Affairs Magazine. We weigh in and explain.
Contents
- Protocols, Nations, and Companies
- Apple can get a lot bigger
- Unicorns and Seed Funds
- Poor Creators and Rich Creators
- Metaverse Thinking
- Omicron and the Office
- Democratizing Venture Capital?
- Startup of the Week
- Tweet of the Week
Editorial
The world doesn’t stand still. A time traveler from 1994 would be amazed by what we did with the Internet. That was the year I and my co-founder David Rowe launched Europe’s first consumer internet provider — EasyNet. Only 27 years later the entire world of smartphones, tablets, streaming TV, podcasts, live audio rooms, and global money flows rests on top of it.
And sitting here in 2021 it seems clear that 27 years from now, in 2048, we too would be similarly amazed. The pace of change is accelerating, not slowing…