Read, Write, Own, Think

The article follows the web through four waves, from the static pages of the 1990s to the agents of today, using Gavin Wood’s Web 3.0 thesis as the spine and adding a fourth verb of my own: think. It then asks a question the usual history skips: in each wave, who actually got to build? My answer is that AI is the first wave whose biggest opportunity is not reserved for developers. The Centaur model, a domain expert working with AI, can turn ordinary professionals into something close to superhuman in their own field. And the race between the United States and China guarantees that this wave will not pass us by, whether we choose to ride it or not.