Social hierarchies, centralized institutions, “trusted” 3d parties form the backbone of almost all spheres of humanity. That’s definitely slows down the progress and evolution and finally (who knows) can be a reason of any future scenario (including dino-story).
Rome empire at the beginning was an example of great social innovation, everyone could do a contribution for an appropriate reward no matter of hierarchy. It was a game changing shift and the beginning of prosperity. But then emperors went in, hierarchies was fixed again. We know the end.
This pattern repeats over and over. This days, #bitcoin was a 1st publicly known network/protocol and organization without explicit hierarchy, moreover anyone can participate without any permission (permissionless).
Today many speakers say that decentralization is not so important, there are a lot of centralized corporations are built around decentralized protocols (remember emperors?). Exchanges, marketplaces, custodian wallets, etc.
Statement that #metaverse (immersive internet) proposed by big corps is for creators — simply dystopia.
Decentralization is very important than ever before for evolution and progress of information society. Can be centralized and decentralized orgs/services co-exist. For sure, but let’s do it right.
Decentralized consensus networks at the core of #web3 (L1), any peer-to-peer networks at (L2/p2p). Centralized services can be integrated in L2/p2p with additional L1-dispute resolution mechanisms.
