Are we living in a Scenius?

I just finished reading Packy McCormick’s piece titled Sc3nius and it’s fantastic. In summary, Packy describes how we’re living in a Scenius which is the communal form of the concept of genius. The idea behind Scenius is that the periods of greatest human progress have been a product of communal genius fostered by multiple factors.

The Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the emergence of Silicon Valley and now…. web3.0. Packy writes that we may be living in one of the biggest moments of human progress. Our grandkids will be writing about today and how building blocks of web3.0 helped shape the future.

I’ve written quite a bit about the times we’re living in. It’s hard to ignore that tech has hit an inflection point fostered by the blockchain. I don’t doubt that we’re living in extraordinary times right now and that the future may be looking at this time as a Scenius.

Perhaps another and perhaps simpler way to view these times. The last few years have been hard for many of us. We’ve seen political turmoil, civil unrest and of course a devastating pandemic strike. Many have been looking to tech as the future for creating a better society - so far that has been a mixed bag. We need some positivity in this world and web3.0 may be that answer for all of us.

Web3.0 knows no borders or race, at the most core sense, it empowers the individuals and rewards them for banding their collective intelligence together. In essence, Web3.0 may be that tech we’ve been looking for in the last century that can actually unify the world. That’s exciting and something everyone should get behind.