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Consensus 2025
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Internet 2030


Markets

Crypto Co-ops and Game Theory: Why the Internet Must Learn to Collaborate to Survive

As the internet shifts to the open, decentralized standards of Web 3.0, can we find a balance between competition and cooperation?

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Policy

The Standard About to Revolutionize Payments

Changing the standard way financial institutions communicate changes everything.

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Markets

How We Short Capitalism – And Finance the Revolution

In the post-capitalist future, human beings will collaborate, communicate and create using the radically decentralized tools.

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Tech

A New Era of Media Begins With Tokenization

Substack alone won't save publishing: The future of online content is where "money legos," communities and media meet.

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Finance

How Small Business Can Achieve 'Economies of Scale' by 2030

Blockchain tech will allow small businesses to collaborate as never before, reducing the power of big business to dictate terms.

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Markets

Me, Myself and My Multiple Avatars

In 2030, there are 20-odd versions of "you" floating around the internet. Can you manage all the personas you created?

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Policy

The Currency Cold War: Four Scenarios

Stablecoins. Bitcoin. Libra. China's DCEP. Digital $. By 2030, there could be dozens of competing currencies. How will the money wars play out?

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Policy

A New Social Contract for the Digital Age

Veteran futurist Don Tapscott imagines the world in 2030 and finds reasons for optimism in the face of persistent social crisis.

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Tech

'We Blew It.' Douglas Rushkoff's Take on the Future of the Web

Douglas Rushkoff is a futurist and early cypherpunk. His early writings on the internet paved the way for thinking about the web in revolutionary terms. What's changed?

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Tech

DAOs Will Never Govern the World (at This Pace)

DAOs were meant to fix the broken democratic processes in today's society. They've come up against their own governance roadblocks.

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