Our cofounder Brooklyn Zelenka presented Web3 for Fun & Profit: Agency • Openness • Re-decentralization at CascadiaJS 2021 this year:
Web3, blockchains, edge computing, and commons networks. They all conjure up images of Elon Musk shilling cryptocurrencies. Is that all these technologies are good for? Is there more to the hype than economics?
It can be daunting to know what to even look for, let alone get started. In this talk, Brooklyn will take you through the broad landscape of web3, the problems that they solve, and show how some of these techniques can open up new ways of solving Web 2.0 problems today.
CascadiaJS 2021 Speaker & Talk Profile
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Slides
The full slide deck is available on IPFS of course! (but you can also flip through it on Brooke's presentation archive).
Here are a few selected slides:
Web3: A technological & social movement characterized by openness, interoperability, and user agency
Evolution of the Web
User Agency
User-Controlled Data
Commons Networks
The End of (Infrastructure) History
Reactions
Thanks for the interest and support about this talk:
This is one of the best (if not absolute best) web3 intros I’ve seen! Very much enjoying @expede’s talk at #CascadiaJS pic.twitter.com/kttAVN93CJ
— Michelle Bakels (@MichelleBakels) November 4, 2021
Having a happy talk with @expede
— Ryan Ramage (@ryan_ramage_) November 4, 2021
and @bmann at lunch and finding out @FISSIONcodes is building things I've dreamt about. Long but worthwhile road!
🗣️ @expede: Web3
— Mark Palfreeman 🌲 (@markpalfreeman) November 4, 2021
🗒️ Web3: tech & social movement for openness and interoperability. Decentralized, resilient networks.
🤔 Goal: user agency—not consume/create but *own* and control data. "Open source but at the data layer."
➡️ https://t.co/POPJbiYBMY, @ethereum #CascadiaJS
Aside from Twitter, Art Rosnovsky did a great write up of the conference including his sketch notes:
Thank you to all the CascadiaJS 2021 attendees & organizers! It was great to start mixing online and virtual.
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