Radical Technologies — 6 Revolutions From The Dot Com Era
When we reflect on the many revolutions of the last 30 years, the access to resources that were formerly reserved for institutions, the elite and centralised powers has gradually been distributed to the people through various innovative technologies. Like the ocean, resources accumulate in mountainous centralised waves. With the help of technologies, the waves overflow and dissipate into wider expanses.

Here we reflect on past technological eras and the teams that ushered in revolutions.

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In 1984, the founding Apple team and a small advertising agency came together to create an Orwel-inspired Super Bowl advert to introduce a revolutionary personal computer for the everyday person.

A ‘way of life’ technology that even changed icons into art, an act that revolted against elitist constraints of IBM and the likes. A technology that made the computer, personal, the Macintosh.

Did you know that MP3 format was invented in the 1970s?

But only brought to life in 1998 by South Korean company Saehan with the world’s first MP3 Player, MPMan.

This inspired the heart of 19-year-old student, Shawn Fanning, to program his own community sharing software, he called it Napster.

Napster was famously pursued for allowing its users to trade music and videos for free without paying royalties to production companies and artists. However, the software’s concept revolutionised and led a new media sharing era which manifested in platforms such as Spotify, ITunes, SoundCloud, BandCamp and more.

Shawn later joined a startup company in the midst of a new social movement, a social movement that would revolutionise how we interact with each other today.

That movement was Facebook.

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In the mid 90s, to make a simple email account was a daunting task that could only be done and used from a computer. But in San Francisco.

A bored Apple employee, Sabeer Bhatia, left the tech giant and pursued an idea to create a browser-based email that was accessible from anywhere on any device around the world with access to the internet, he called it Hotmail.

Hotmail, by today’s standards, was one of the internet’s first viral sensations spurred on by its ingenious

‘Get your free email at Hotmail” button at the bottom of every email sent, which is now today’s ‘Share’ button. Hotmail received over 100 thousand subscribers in the first few weeks and was later bought by Microsoft for $400 million.

The Hotmail model is still copied today.

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In the year 1440, religion went viral thanks to a technology that we seldom think as a technology, a book.

A man from Germany, Johannes Gutenberg revolutionised the printing of words to paper with a new type of printing press. It differed from the Chinese and Korean ‘wood block printer’ because it used mechanics to press ink to moving paper, making it easy to print 20million volumes by 1500.

This led to a widespread golden-age of knowledge for the first time in history. Resulting in access to written resources and religious text such as the bible that was followed by the mass adoption of the Martin Luther “95 Theses” and a protestant reformation.

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Imagine a time when you had to send a cheque to pay for something online.

Horrifying, yes.

This was an era not too long ago, that was revolutionised by a virtual payments service that affected the way in which we buy things online to this day.

That service is called PayPal.

PayPal, originally named Confinity, was started in 1998 by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, Luke Nosek and Ken Howrey.Elon Musk, a competitor at a virtual payments company X.com, joined and eventually became CEO.

PayPal gave un-banked peoples in developed to developing nations the ability to access online global payments, bringing prosperity to many.

95 per cent of people in the UK are now shopping online and most of them have probably paid for their goods via PayPal.

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If you have ever heard of the origin story of Facebook, then you surely would have heard of Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss. In popular media, the Winklevoss twins were portrayed as the privileged, blonde, athletic embodiment of the establishment in Mark Zuckerburg’s genius underdog narrative.

But how much do you really know about the revolutionary Winklevoss twins?

After the twins sought compensation in court for stolen intellectual property, the idea for Facebook, they eventually settled.

Facebook went on to build a siloed empire that covertly extracts data from its users to turn a profit.

Meanwhile, the Winklevoss twins pursued decentralisation of control and cut out gatekeepers through a platform they called Gemini.

Gemini was named after the twin star sign and NASA’s moon-bound mission Project Gemini, evoking the cutting edge technology and the “number go up” culture of the platform’s main service, cryptocurrency.

The Winklevoss twins say, “We’re all astronauts building on the frontier of money and the frontier of art and the frontier of finance. We feel like we’re on a spaceship, exploring a new frontier.”

Gemini grants the everyday person the level of returns that they should have been receiving by saving money in the bank, increasing returns from 0.01% to 8.05%, had centralised banks not taken the majority of the profit earned from reinvesting your savings.

Gemini’s exchange lets you buy and sell bitcoin and 40+ crypto assets. They even protect you from global inflation, political instability, theft, and unknown risks with their wallet app.

Recognising that the future is becoming more digital, the Winklevoss twins are helping people tie their real-life assets to the digital world through ‘Non-Fungible Tokens’ or NFTs.

The unprecedented empowerment of the individual and community stands before us.

‘Decentralised Technology’ through Blockchain & Cryptocurrency is a dot com shadowing era, that will radically transform and bring hope to the furthest nooks of our world.

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