Archive for Nov 2023


SSI is the Key to Claiming Ownership in an AI-Enabled World

I've been trying to be intentional about using generative AI for more and more tasks in my life. For example, the image above is generated by DALL-E. I think generative AI is going to upend almost everything we do online, and I'm not alone. One of the places it will have the greatest impact is its use in personal agents, determining whether or not these agents enable people to lead effective online lives. Jamie Smith recently wrote a great article in Customer Futures about the kind of AI-enabled personal agents we should be building. As Jamie points out: "Digital
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dApps Are About Control, Not Blockchains

Decentralized applications, where the identity and application data are both controlled by the person using the app, provide the means of disintermediting companies who leverage their privileged position to work for their own interests and against ours.
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Permissionless and One-to-One

Symmetric technology democratizes speech. The web, despite all the good it's done is fundamentally assymetric. We need a model that is permissionless and one-to-one.
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Cloudless: Computing at the Edge

New use cases will naturally drive more computing away from centralized cloud platforms to the edge. The future is cloudless.
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