WTF Is Web3?
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🗓️ 26 May 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The cover story of this month’s issue of WIRED magazine is “Paradise at the Crypto Arcade: Inside the Web3 Revolution” by Gilad Edelman. We interviewed Gilad about Web3 a couple months ago, and this week, we revisit that conversation.
Web3 is the latest internet buzzword which encompasses an egalitarian vision of the web that's more reliable, based on trust, and, inevitably, built on the blockchain. This plan for the future is being pushed by startups, venture capitalists, and Silicon Valley bigwigs, all of whom stand to make some sweet, sweet cryptocurrency from a new breed of web app that takes the power from the platforms and puts it back in the hands of the people.
Gilad joins us to talk about whether the reality of whatever Web3 becomes will ever live up to Silicon Valley's rosy vision of it.
Gadget Lab will be back next week with a brand new episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. We're taking a break from Gadget Lab this week because it is just too nice outside to sit in a dark studio. |
| 0:06.4 | So instead, we're going to replay a recent episode. |
| 0:08.9 | It's a show with fan-favorist, Galad Edelman, who is a senior writer here at Wired. |
| 0:13.8 | We talk all about Web 3, the latest internet buzzword, and we try to make sense of how big of a deal this new tech is. |
| 0:20.4 | We should probably note that at the time we recorded it, Crypto was performing differently, |
| 0:25.1 | huh? |
| 0:25.9 | It was riding high. |
| 0:27.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.7 | So since then, Galad has written about this very subject. |
| 0:31.2 | In fact, the latest cover story in Wyard's newest issue of the magazine is all about Web3. |
| 0:36.5 | It's called Paradise at the Crypto Arcade inside the Web3 revolution. And it's a banger, folks. It's really good. Gala does an excellent job demystifying Web3. So we're going to link to that in the show notes for this episode. And if you get the print magazine in the mail, it's in the June issue. In the meantime, enjoy this episode from the gadget lab vault. And we will be back next week with a brand new show. |
| 1:03.6 | Mike. Lauren. Like, what if I told you that you've been doing the internet all wrong? Like you've been too trusting about how it works and it's like all centralized and stuff. |
| 1:16.5 | I mean, I signed up for Twitter. |
| 1:18.1 | So every day I feel like I'm doing the internet wrong. |
| 1:21.5 | What if I told you that the blockchain is going to fix everything? |
| 1:27.3 | I would run in the opposite direction. |
| 1:29.8 | Well, just stick around at least for this podcast. |
| 1:32.0 | Okay. |
| 1:32.4 | Okay. |
| 1:35.8 | Hey, everyone. |
| 1:40.7 | Welcome to Gadget Lab. |
| 1:41.7 | I'm Lauren Good. |
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