Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet

Recommended by Scott Duke Kominers, Sarofim-Rock Professor at Harvard Business School

Much of my research and intellectual focus these days has been on “Web3,” a new architecture for the internet that leverages blockchains to give people direct control of their data and other digital assets. In “Read Write Own,” my friend and collaborator Chris Dixon, M.B.A. ’03, explains the dynamics of how the internet got where it is today — and how the Web3 paradigm could shift the balance of power away from dominant, highly centralized platform businesses, in favor of consumers and entrepreneurs.