Internet 2030


Tech

How the Decentralized Web Transfers Wealth From Corporations to People

Companies today control our domain names, the content we host and our access to the internet. By 2030, that will change.

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Tech

Three Mega-Trends Shaping the Future of Money

How three forces driving digital forms of money will upend markets, geopolitics and society over the next decade.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies about the Libra (Diem) project before the House Financial Services Committee on October 23, 2019. The hearings helped expose just how shallow Facebook's first claims of "decentralization" were. Now, with Threads, they're trying again. (Getty Images)

Tech

The Digital Archipelago: How to Build an Internet Where Communities Thrive

Technology exists to serve people. Today, the situation is nearly reversed. Each of us is just propping up an engagement graph somewhere.

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Tech

What Happens if Big Tech Only Gets Bigger?

Amy Webb, a quantitative futurist, thinks Big Tech is only going to get bigger and more powerful.

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Markets

Better Broadband Will Pave the Way for a 'Brand New World'

Self-help guru James Altucher sees a world where we can jump between virtual realities. Will it be a better world? Time will tell.

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Markets

Crypto Co-ops and Game Theory: Why the Internet Must Learn to Collaborate to Survive

As the internet shifts to the open, decentralized standards of Web 3.0, can we find a balance between competition and cooperation?

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Policy

The Standard About to Revolutionize Payments

Changing the standard way financial institutions communicate changes everything.

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Markets

How We Short Capitalism – And Finance the Revolution

In the post-capitalist future, human beings will collaborate, communicate and create using the radically decentralized tools.

Barricade, the Paris Commune, May, 1871

Tech

A New Era of Media Begins With Tokenization

Substack alone won't save publishing: The future of online content is where "money legos," communities and media meet.

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Finance

How Small Business Can Achieve 'Economies of Scale' by 2030

Blockchain tech will allow small businesses to collaborate as never before, reducing the power of big business to dictate terms.

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