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    8 months ago

    There once was a dream of the semantic web, also known as web2. The semantic web could have enabled easy to ingest information of webpages, removing soo much of the computation required to get the information. Thus preventing much of the AI crawling cpu overhead.

    What we got as web2 instead was social media. Destroying facts and making people depressed at a newer before seen rate.

    Web3 was about enabling us to securely transfer value between people digitally and without middlemen.

    What crypto gave us was fraud, expensive jpgs and scams. The term web is now even so eroded that it has lost much of its meaning. The information age gave way for the misinformation age, where everything is fake.







  • To be fair though, if almost anyone had a 3D printer, only plastics would be distributed, and only the plastic that is needed.

    What I mean is that you don’t have to manufacture in advance and actually ship plastic products to every corner in the world so that these plastic garbage cab sit on shelf and then end up in a landfill after not being sold for tens of years.

    Basically on-demand plastic garbage production would in most cases where the amount required is not well understood be beneficial if most people did it.

    Because almost everything is made in excess, and the wasteful production is just offset in cost.