@msimoni: ``I think that we in Ethereum should conceptualize ourselves as being part of an ecosystem building "sanctuary technolo…
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Vitalik Buterin suggests Ethereum should be seen as building 'sanctuary technologies'—free, open-source tools that enable people to live and work resiliently against external pressures, amidst growing concerns over surveillance and corporate control.
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``I think that we in Ethereum should conceptualize ourselves as being part of an ecosystem building “sanctuary technologies”: free open-source technologies that let people live, work, talk to each other, manage risk and build wealth, and collaborate on shared goals, in a way that optimizes for robustness to outside pressures.“‘’
vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin): Over the past year, many people I talk to have expressed worry about two topics:
- Various aspects of the way the world is going: government control and surveillance, wars, corporate power and surveillance, tech enshittification / corposlop, social media becoming a memetic
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