At Real Life, we've run several essays about "Web3" over the past year, and during that time, we began to question whether it was even appropriate to use the term "Web3," or if that was giving support to its supposed inevitability no matter how critical the piece was in which the term appeared. An ideological agenda is pretty much built in to even mentioning it (even here and now in this newsletter). Is it enough to try to delegitimize it with scare quotes every time it comes up? Should it simply be replaced with "crypto" in all instances? Should the subject be avoided altogether?
Mazes containing loops
Mazes containing loops
Mazes containing loops
At Real Life, we've run several essays about "Web3" over the past year, and during that time, we began to question whether it was even appropriate to use the term "Web3," or if that was giving support to its supposed inevitability no matter how critical the piece was in which the term appeared. An ideological agenda is pretty much built in to even mentioning it (even here and now in this newsletter). Is it enough to try to delegitimize it with scare quotes every time it comes up? Should it simply be replaced with "crypto" in all instances? Should the subject be avoided altogether?