Ben Swann

to the conversation we're having now, it's not even a negative anymore, where it was for a long time.

But there's a book, this is so interesting to me as an old man, but there's a book called The Starfish and the Spider.

It's about 20 years old.

And it talks about the concept of decentralization versus centralized companies.

And a couple of the examples they would use for the centralized companies would be like Coke, it would be like CBS News, things like that.

But for decentralized, and then the starfish and the spider, right?

The spider, if you cut its head off, it has eight legs.

You cut its head off, it dies.

But a decentralized starfish, you cut one of its arms off and throw it in the water, it grows another starfish, right?

And so they use these great examples of these decentralized companies and Napster, right?

Napster, which of course doesn't exist anymore.

It didn't last very long because it was sued into an oblivion when Sean Parker started it.

But then you look at others they mentioned, and one of them at the very top, Wikipedia.

was this brilliant source of decentralized user-generated content and information, right?

And so they talk about how powerful Wikipedia is.

And as I read this, I read it just a couple of years ago, just had to shake my head at it.

Like, oh, it's so sad because Wikipedia had a chance.

It had an opportunity to be like a really valuable source of information.

100%.

And instead it became a joke of itself, like this complete... Now I don't trust it.