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The spirit is broader than most people think. A lot of discussion seems to focus around NFTs or the latest crypto scam but there is also a lot of great open source development towards sovereign data or decentralised identity for example.
This is a bit harsh but not wrong. What in my opinion is especially interesting is that we have so many eyes on it already... (this is not necessarily a good thing)
While a lot of people are hating on NFTs or laughing at scalability we need to keep in mind that most development is happening in an open source fashion. If you think about the banking sector in general it is quite secretive and speculative and I believe a fresh wind was necessary and banks got the memo.
Another big problem I see in web3 is that projects are just trying too hard; in this sense we are way more aligned with the Dot-Com bubble. While we are stuck in 1983 (for now) everyone is promising 2050 by yesterday and it gets tiring quickly.
However, the internet was also intended for the individual and was taken away from us as platforms took over... The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
If we look at history back until the industrial revolution, I would guess that less people had to work on food production and thus could go into creative fields.
Intelligence is better measurable through IQ tests and we can see IQ score rising in societies today. (Flynn Effect)