The Net Society crew returns, missing Derek this week, for a fiery post-mortem on content coins, Base, and the design failures showing up all over the crypto timeline. They break down why the latest wave of token launches feels more like narrative recycling than real innovation, and explore the growing exhaustion across the ecosystem. From there, the conversation shifts to consumer crypto, where brunch apps, stablecoins, and stealth NFTs suggest a quieter future ahead. Drawing comparisons to the decline of file sharing, they ask whether the degens are truly disappearing or just changing shape. They bring in Carlotta Perez’s theory of turning points to place crypto within a broader move from chaos toward maturity. The second half zooms out to a larger story of algorithmic governance, platform fatigue, and the growing challenge of living under systems we can no longer fully control. The episode closes with a speculative look at rogue AGI, quantum multiverses, and whether some systems have already grown too complex to manage.
Mentioned in the episode
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