Michelangelo ValtancoliAngel Investor, Various Startups · Investing + building at Various Startups

Permissionless access: make the best of it!

22 Oct 2022 · 1 min

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In this brief dialogue, Speaker A reflects on how, historically, a person's identity, religion, material resources, and knowledge were tightly bound to the village of birth, limiting personal agency. Speaker A then asserts that, for the first time in history, technological and societal developments have created exponentially larger, permissionless access to information and opportunities, giving individuals the chance to discover their true selves beyond the constraints of their inherited circumstances. Speaker B affirms this perspective.

In the past, you're born in a village with a name that is bound to your family, with specific religion that depends on the village in which you're born, because you don't have access to anything else, right? That's what you know. That's what you're given. Your, your access to material, your access to knowledge, everything is limited and bound by your physicality.
Yes.
For the first time in history, we're able to give exponentially larger access to all sorts of leverages. So for the first time, I feel like people have a chance of discovering who they actually are instead of being bound to what they were given. Yes.
After World War II, I think people, you know, capitalism allowed us to like build more individualistic society. And for the past 30 years, internet like supercharged it with permissionless connection to anybody in the world all the time.