Last week's Apple's announcement of a fancy AR goggle set (Apple Vision Pro) has spurred yet another wave of ridiculous comments online: "Is this a future of metaverse?", "'Spatial computing' eats the metaverse!", "Who is more 'meta': Meta or Apple?" Add that to the previous hype on the topic & it...
Web3 is a hot topic these days. No, I do not mean Web 3.0 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web] (so-called "The Semantic Web"), but Web3 [https://www.wired.com/story/web3-gavin-wood-interview/] - the (somehow vague) idea of building the next stage of the Internet upon "a fully...
The phone (as a GSM voice communication device) should be already dead by 2021 - don't you think? Its underlying technology is outdated, and you can achieve the same (or better) effects more conveniently, with a better (call) quality, w/o many constraints (an expensive monthly contract, a device that...
Opinion (mine), not a fact: 95% of currently existing truly decentralized systems (typically blockchain-based) are rubbish. Or, if you're asking for more precise classification, they can be allotted as follows: * systems that should never be decentralized (because there's no point) - example: all the corpo-blockchains * modern equivalents of a Ponzi...
> TL;DR The need for the decentralized systems is not a fairy tale - we (as a society) depend more and more on opaque "weapons of math destruction", struggle with real-world ecosystems that are just too complex to be manageable in traditional ways. I tend to believe that an amalgamate...
