Unchained By The Blockchain

Why The World Is Busy Reinventing The Internet

Abhishek Kothari
6 min readJul 5, 2018

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world — Karl Popper

Historically, July 4th has been celebrated as the US independence day since 1776. This year, though, Malta became the first country to metaphorically signal the importance of a new revolution i.e. a Blockchain revolution. Proponents of Blockchain around the world are busy envisioning a new version of the web called “Web 3.0" that will be based on Decentralization and Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT). A version of the web, they think, will liberate us from Internet monopolies. Liberating the internet from itself so to speak. This article provides a ringside view of the new architects busy shaping the new web and their vision of the future.

Why Do We Need A New Version Of The Web?

Source: safaribooksonline

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Abhishek Kothari

Futurist@The Intersection of Finance, Tech & Humanity. Stories of a Global Language: “Money”. Contributor @ Startup Grind, HackerNoon, HBR