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Yesterday, I decided that my blogging career should come to an end. I was doing myself a disservice. I told myself that the goal of the posts was to dig deeper, peel back the layers, get down to the core. But by publishing online (or on-chain as the case may be), I was subconsciously writing for others, even if I told myself that I didn't care if others read. So, in an effort to be more authentic, I figured I'd stop publishing and start doing a private journal. Within 2 hours of that decision...
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As a big fan of Carlota Perez’s work, I reference her cycles of innovation (mentally) very frequently.
All of the studies she has done, however, referred to the cycles for atom-based innovation.
As we move from Web 2 to Web 3, an increasing amount of innovation is purely digital, which makes me wonder if these cycles are going to increase in speed and thus, shorten.
I was discussing this with a friend who is also a friend of Perez and he had wondered the same thing.
He made a great point, one which I hadn’t considered before.
Though the cycle of innovation may be shorter, the cycle of adoption may not change (or, at least, changes much more slowly) because adoption is dependent on humans and humans take a while to change their behaviors.
Which means that Web 3 will probably take longer than I hoped.
But it will still be faster than most expect.
As a big fan of Carlota Perez’s work, I reference her cycles of innovation (mentally) very frequently.
All of the studies she has done, however, referred to the cycles for atom-based innovation.
As we move from Web 2 to Web 3, an increasing amount of innovation is purely digital, which makes me wonder if these cycles are going to increase in speed and thus, shorten.
I was discussing this with a friend who is also a friend of Perez and he had wondered the same thing.
He made a great point, one which I hadn’t considered before.
Though the cycle of innovation may be shorter, the cycle of adoption may not change (or, at least, changes much more slowly) because adoption is dependent on humans and humans take a while to change their behaviors.
Which means that Web 3 will probably take longer than I hoped.
But it will still be faster than most expect.
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