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Web 3.0 is a lane, not a highway

Mark Mulligan

2 Sep 2022

web 3.0

metaverse

Blockchain

Facebook was not the first web 2.0 company, but it was the one that took it mainstream to a global audience. Consumers’ digital lives would never be the same again. Whereas web 1.0 had enabled them to...

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If Web3 is so forward-thinking, why is it so male dominated?

Tatiana Cirisano

28 Feb 2022

diversity

women in music

gender equality

Strike up a five-minute conversation with someone in the Web3 space, and any combination of the words “forward-thinking”, “revolutionary”, and “equitable” is bound to come up. Many proponents...

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Have We Reached Peak Tech?

Mark Mulligan

27 Sep 2019

Alexa

disruption

dot com

In last week’s Take Five I highlighted a Vox story which reported that over the last year the number of companies using terms like ‘tech’ or technology’ in their documents is down 12%. This is...

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SXSW 2019: Streaming, Radio and the Unevenly Distributed Future

Zach Fuller

18 Mar 2019

sxsw

Technology

Uncategorised

‘The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed’. In many ways, this quote by science fiction writer William Gibson surmises the work we do at MIDiA: cautiously observing new tech developments...

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Music Tech and Unintended Consequences

Zach Fuller

23 Jan 2019

Innovation

Media

Recent discussions over how music will look in the app economy, with services such as TikTok effectively ‘meme-ing’ the concept of music and emphasising its social context, has led me to reflect on...

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