Wiki's Co-Founder Larry Sanger on Internet, Blockchain and Knowledge

Intellectual of the innovative industry, innovator of the concept of intellectuality, experimentator with technologies and educator by dedication, before co-founding Wikipedia in 2001, Larry Sanger studied and taught philosophy, being interested especially in epistemology - i.e., the science of knowledge.

The project was ultimately unsuccessful, but Sanger kept developing educational projects as well as a crowd-sourced news portal before becoming the chief information officer of Everipedia in 2017 - an encyclopedia of unrestricted topics, based on blockchain technology.

As of 2019, the project has almost completed phase one of its move to the blockchain.

"I think it's going to take several years before there are mature decentralized apps that a lot of people are able to use. We're still figuring out a lot about blockchain. Yes, there are DApps that will work pretty well, but I I think, ultimately, the mature blockchain technology of the future is still quite a ways off."

Complementing the internet with blockchainAccording to Sanger, the internet of today could not have been created by any modern executive in Silicon Valley - and no, Mark Zuckerberg is not an exception.

As Sanger said, Blockchain technology is adding "Transparency, accountability and, of course, the incentives that are provided by tokenization," but "There is nothing magical about a blockchain technology that makes it the only way to decentralize online activity."

The qualities of blockchain consist for Sanger of "Being a way of giving financial incentives to open-source developers." These concepts have not really gone mainstream "Because most of the work done on open-source software is done by volunteers. There isn't a lot of money involved. Blockchain makes it possible for us to have the same sort of decentralized development and participation that open-source software allows, but it adds onto that financial incentives for users - and that's pretty exciting."

Blockchain in 10 yearsTo Sanger, the blockchain industry needs to pay a lot more attention to user experience.

"Most people just don't care about blockchain at this point. Maybe they should, but they don't. And that's just a fact that we have to deal with."

"We haven't figured out what the best ways of using the technology are. We haven't established systematic programming languages. We don't know what the biggest companies are going to be. There is so much that's up in the air at this point. I think the world of blockchain is going to look very different in 10 years and we have no idea what that could be like."