shebek

Depends on your definition of "real world" I guess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephemeralization

He is right. None of this has any obvious utility.

Here's the thing.

If we're talking about a material object, there would be a more or less clear distinction between "what it is", "how it's made", "how it's used", etc.

If we're talking about software, I don't think that's the case any more.

By concentrating power in the hands of unelected, unaccountable institutions.

By fragmenting the cognitive capacities of regular human beings.

By letting hatred and insanity reach a global audience.

By diverting countless person-hours of intelligent labor towards largely useless endeavours.

By becoming an opaque intermediary to an increasing fraction of all social interactions.

I though the point of personal computing was to make it easy to think, not to make it unnecessary?

If you think the firehose of self-referential click-bait needs to be made even more addictive, I'm really not sure what Web3 can offer.

OTOH, reintroducing the friction of having to decide whether the next click is worth your time and attention (i.e. money) is where it's at.

What this line of reasoning seems to be missing is that society seems to be getting worse largely because of software.