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Board Economics
Re: Why Decentralizing File Storage Matters
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odolvlobo
on 11/05/2018, 18:39:41 UTC
... I myself struggle to see why an average user (someone like my mother) would want to use a decentralized service rather than dropbox to store compilation of vacation pictures and videos (or whatever she stores).
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By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s. – Paul Krugman, 1998
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"640K ought to be enough for anybody.” – Remark attributed to Bill Gates, 1981

Your inability to imagine how a technology could become important is a bad reason to believe that it won't.

And just to be fair, I originally did not believe PC's would become popular. Who would pay thousands of dollars to store recipes and manage their checkbook? I was completely wrong and I'll never do that again.

The key is to imagine how it might be used and estimate a potential value from that.