#312: Web3

Tech Policy Podcast

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4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Web3 could lead to greater decentralization, authentication, and immutability on the Internet. But what does that mean? It’s about much more than just crypto and NFTs. Joining the show to break things down are Hillary Brill, a senior fellow at Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law and Policy, and Gabrielle Hibbert, co-founder of Bloom, a Web3 development education program for women and genderqueer individuals. They discuss whether Web3 is in fact the “next big thing” for the Internet, explain the technology that makes it possible, and dispel some of the misconceptions about it. Hillary and Gabrielle are both members of the Decentralized Future Council, an initiative that aims to help policymakers understand decentralized technologies.

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0:00.0	Web 3. What is it? How will it change the Internet in our lives? When will it do so?
0:16.0	Will it do so? That is our topic today on the Tech Policy podcast. I'm your host, Corbyn Barthold. I've been known to
0:25.4	do fulsome intros on this podcast. I'm not even going to try to do that today. We will have two
0:33.0	experts explain everything to me, which I'm very happy about. Hillary Brill is a senior fellow at Georgetown Laws Institute for Technology, Law, and Policy.
0:44.3	She's been doing tech policy for more than 25 years, including as the founder and head of HTB Strategies,
0:52.3	working there with both Fortune 500 tech companies and public
0:56.6	interest tech clients, as well as during stints at PayPal and eBay.
1:02.2	She's here today on behalf of Decentralized Future Council, an initiative with Filecoin Foundation
1:08.8	and the Internet Education Foundation that aims to help policymakers understand decentralized technologies.
1:16.7	Gabrielle Hibbert is the other expert here today.
1:20.0	She is a resident fellow at the Decentralized Future Council.
1:23.7	She's the co-founder of Bloom, a Web 3 development education program for women and gender queer individuals.
1:32.2	Outside of Bloom, she works as a security researcher at least authority, a digital security and privacy firm.
1:40.2	Gabrielle has over 10 years experience in the research field and is a frequent guest lecturer at the College of William and Mary, Brandeis University, and Spelman College.
1:52.2	Hillary and Gabrielle are both enthusiastic about Web3.
1:55.8	They're going to help us understand what it is, its promise, its potential future. Welcome to you both. So, as my
2:06.4	intro suggested, I think we need to start at the beginning. What is Web 3 and what's gotten
2:14.5	you interested in it? Yeah. So I actually like to start way before Web 3
2:20.7	and really position us at the start of the Internet, really.
2:25.6	So when we get to Web 1, we have what we call the static web,
2:32.1	these read or write only pages. This is the internet that most of our generation
2:40.1	is familiar with. There's not a lot of e-commerce pages popping up yet. But by the early 2000s,
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