We could be standing at the beginning of a new great episode of value and wealth creation from tech. … [+]
A common vision in the tech startup world is certainly not a given. Usually, the diversity of ideas is high, and different sectors and innovators seem to be pulling the world in different directions.
Every once in a while, however, a breakthrough makes such an impact and inspires so many tech people with influence that visions start aligning and the world starts heading in lockstep in the same direction.
It certainly feels that we are entering such a moment. The blockchain boom laid the foundation for such an alignment, and now more and more people are joining the web 3.0 movement.
Chris Dixon, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and a proponent of the decentralized web 3.0 movement, compares the moment we are in to the Cambrian explosion – a period in prehistory between 541 and 530 million years ago characterized by the unparalleled emergence of new diverse species and organisms.
Just as the environment on the planet half a billion years…
