Stephen Downes

Here's Ben Werdmuller on the recent trend toward decentralized networks: "One might propose a decentralized alternative to Facebook that has all of Facebook's features, for example, and assume that people will flock to it because it's not owned by a corporation. You care about privacy and ownership, after all - if others don't, surely it's just a matter of educating them?" But "People, in general, want convenience from their technology, not morality. So instead of building a more ethical version of the past, we need to build a more suitable version of the future." I think this is really key. It needs to be easy to use and it needs to do what people want to do. Image: 101 Blockchains.