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“I could write an entire (tedious) book about why I think blockchain-based technologies are foolish at best and scams at worst, but it wouldn’t convince anyone in blockchainland of anything.”
― The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
― The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
“The lower the switching costs are, the better a company has to treat you if they want to keep your business.”
― The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
― The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
“To make tech better, we have to make it smaller—small enough that the bad ideas, carelessness and blind spots of individual tech leaders are their problems, not everyone else’s.”
― The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
― The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
“In my discussions with blockchain people, I’ve encountered a persistent pattern: first, they assume that if you disagree with them, it must be because you don’t understand them. If you manage to convince a blockchainist that you do understand them and that you still disagree with them, they assume you’re being paid to disagree with them.”
― The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
― The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation
“We find ourselves constantly in the position of having to decide about things that will fundamentally impact our lives, but without the knowledge required to make such decisions responsibly.”
― Against Progress
― Against Progress
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