{"id":103095,"date":"2022-10-06T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dash.org\/?p=103095"},"modified":"2022-10-06T21:38:14","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T21:38:14","slug":"why-dash-platform-changes-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dash.org\/blog\/why-dash-platform-changes-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Dash Platform changes everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was asked to write an article about the features of a new technology in the Dash Ecosystem. It\u2019s called Platform. It is an amazing project and I happily accepted the assignment. But I wrote it with some fear and trepidation. History is littered with amusing examples of people attempting to predict the effects of a new invention or technology. Two cases will illustrate my point nicely.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

“So we went to Atari and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got this amazing thing, even\u00a0<\/span>built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or\u00a0<\/span>we’ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we’ll come\u00a0<\/span>work for you.’ And they said, ‘No.’\u00a0<\/span>So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, ‘Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t got through college yet.'”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

–Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P\u00a0<\/span>interested in his and Steve Wozniak’s personal computer.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.” <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a fancy way of covering my\u2026..backside when Dash Platform breaks the crypto world and the internet and the very fabric of money in ways which simply cannot be predicted.<\/span><\/p>\n

It would be hard to describe Platform without some context. Let\u2019s assume for this discussion that we are firmly in the middle of Web 2. Web 2 is a maze of companies, and your accounts with those companies, plus a different password for each account.\u00a0 Security is terrible, hacks and data theft are frequent and the user (you) often becomes the product when your personal data gets collected and sold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Then what is web3?\u00a0 Just a buzz word or marketing hype? Tacking on the ability to pay for something with cryptocurrency? Maybe something about identities and privacy on the web. <\/span>We would hope that <\/span>Web3 would include better decentralization so a few big companies don\u2019t own and control all your data and your access to data. Because that\u2019s a lot like owning and controlling you.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Decentralized applications can give us the functions and features we want, but without the centralized company that owns and operates the website or app. Decentralized money that is not controlled by your bank and\/or your government has to be part of web3 for sure. Something to do with smart contracts maybe?\u00a0 Everyone agrees that Web 3 is still pretty fuzzy.<\/span> What about Web 4? Even fuzzier.<\/span><\/p>\n

Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame recently rolled out what he is describing as Web 5.\u00a0 (Yes, he just skipped right over Web 4.)\u00a0 The central features of his vision are decentralized applications and decentralized nodes, neither of which are owned and operated by a centralized company. That puts users in control of their data and identity.\u00a0 It is the literal opposite of our current Web 2 model. And (in his vision) the economic foundation for Web 5 is Bitcoin. Of course, the Dash community will quickly realize he has chosen the wrong horse for this new economic model. Here is a concise video about his vision of Web 5.<\/span><\/p>\n