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The web content discusses the transformative potential of Web3 technologies, presenting seven reasons why they are poised to change the world by fostering sustainable, ethical, and resilient systems.

Abstract

The article "Why Web3? 7 Reasons for World Change with Living Systems" outlines the significance of infrastructural changes from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0, emphasizing the role of Web3 in creating a more sustainable and equitable world. It suggests that Web3 can lead to innovative solutions for infrastructure, economy, and democracy by promoting peer-to-peer interactions, local sustainability, and ethical coding practices. The author envisions a future with a digital twin of Earth for disaster prediction, transparent systems that reduce the need for large data centers, and the integration of biological, physical, and virtual realms. The piece encourages embracing uncertainty and understanding the intricacies of Web3 for a meaningful impact on society.

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  • Innovation through Laziness: The author posits that laziness can drive innovation, citing permaculture as an example of a simple yet effective solution to complex problems like hunger.

  • Financial Revolution: Web3 is seen as a means to eliminate the need for banks and the interest-based financial system, advocating for a world with short supply chains and no middlemen, where demurrage replaces interest.

  • Democracy Reimagined: The article calls for a new form of democracy with long-term vision and voting rights for all, suggesting that ethical infrastructure and algorithm design are crucial for this transition.

  • Earth's Digital Twin: The author believes in the potential of a digital twin of Earth to predict and mitigate natural disasters, making our environments more resilient to climate change.

  • Understanding the Unseen: Web3 is envisioned to help us see and understand complex systems like oceans, enabling us to solve issues like plastic pollution and algae blooms.

  • Energy-Efficient Internet: The author argues for the development of an internet that uses less energy, leveraging fair algorithms and the Superformula, which could reduce the need for large data centers.

  • Nature and Technology Synergy: The text advocates for a future where biological, physical, and virtual systems are integrated, suggesting that understanding and living in harmony with nature is key to a meaningful life.

  • Personal Connection to Nature: The author identifies with the hummingbird, a symbol of depth, observation, and intuition, and invites readers to reflect on their own connection to nature, hinting at a deeper, more spiritual aspect of technology's role in our lives.

Why Web3? 7 Reasons for World Change with Living Systems

There’s always more to know…

Pixels and birds and air flows will change all. Picture: JL G via Pixabay

Why Web3?

  1. Infrastructures are the most important changemakers of today. In the physical space of cities and villages, it is the roads, train tracks, and waterways that can clean the water and infiltrate it into the groundwater. Making sure we have malaria-low cities. It’s the solar roads that make sure we do not need batteries in cars anymore and can stop the destruction by mining (lithium). Less is more if we design for functions. In systemic designs of economies and societies, the infrastructures are on their way from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 and Web3 now
  2. Lazy people are innovative people. People are lazy. They just want a fun life. And the best inventions have always been done by lazy people. Look at permaculture. Farming for lazy people. Put a piece of cardboard on the soil, and 30 cm of compost, and voila, no more hunger… Easy growth of food… Global Goal #1 is solved in one line of explanation. Everyone can start doing it HERE & NOW
  3. Imagine a peer-to-peer world without banks taking money. Now, banks are making debts bigger by charging interest. The new world has short chains. Everything local. And no consultants or middlemen to make things expensive. The simple life is Web3 living with demurrage instead of interest in the systems. Good systems are fair and sustainable BY DESIGN
  4. Imagine a new democracy. With a long-term vision. And voting rights for ALL. We can code it right now… So, I educate coders on the ethical aspects of infrastructures and algorithms
  5. Imagine a digital twin of the earth. Predicting tsunamis. Detecting a small fire before it becomes a wildfire. Making our cities and rural areas adaptive and resilient to climate disasters
  6. Imagine we can see the unseeable like the oceans. We can understand the flows. Solve plastics problems. And clotted seaweed blooms that block the light for sea species
  7. Imagine an internet that uses little energy. Algorithms that are fair with good feedback loops. Calculating power with Superformula (math 2003). No big data centers or destructive energy plants are needed anymore. It all became possible

We just have to understand the HOW and DO it…

Have a look at our YouTube Channel Abundance 4 ALL for more explanations about HOW.

What Is Web3?

Image by Web3 Accelerator. AIOTI. By my Blue Hearts partner Tom de Block and teams.

We are going to a world where we combine biological with physical and virtual. No use being Don Quixote. No use fighting windmills... Just understanding it and living a meaningful life is enough.

The future can never be known. Embrace uncertainty, my friends…

You can read deeper about Web3 and all the terms in my stories. I will write more about how we design modern, ethical systems right now in the world. In a story soon to be published in Predict, I explain deeper about living systems design with Web3.

Hummingbird

The hummingbird is a special kind of bird. She always dives deeper. Looks beyond the obvious. Refuses to live a superficial life. She’s a warrior. A seeker.

She stands still in the volatile flows and opinions around her. She is a keen observer and knows what’s what. She has common sense. And finds truths. Truths are her food, her nectar. She makes life simple with intuition.

She meditates on airflow. Drinking water from beautiful flowers. Finding hope in images and colors and hugs from her (grand)children. She harvests frequencies of kind people. Only kind people… Not arrogant ones…

She is… a bit like me…

We ARE nature…

What’s your human nature? A bird? Or a whale? Or a microbe creating 20% of the oxygen on our planet? Making our breath every day?

Do you know the secret story of the tiny algae diatomic?

I once wrote I’m a deer. But I think I’m a bit of a diatomic as well. Changing solar roads to become cleaners of water with 95% efficiency transforming light into energy. Stopping mining…

I know Dennett is a squirrel.

And Marcus aka Gregory Maidman is a … Greg… is a Marcus… is a…

Who are you? Tell me, I really want to know…

Here are some options in the shamans' list of animal communication manifested in skulls...

Thank you, Gaia, for giving me Wild Writing © Désirée Driesenaar, 2023

Web3
Ethics
Systems Change
Shamanism
Nature
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