Ethereum’snext billionare here, now

In Internet lore, 'the next billion' is often told as a grand narrative about shifting perspectives and challenged assumptions. As a meme, it lets us question the form and function of technologies that reach the scale of “world-wide” use.

Web3 does not yet have a first billion users, but shifting perspectives and challenging assumptions is an evergreen endeavor. There are about eight billion human people at the moment, and Ethereum is supposed to treat every-one fairly, to the extent that it’s possible to treat people fairly when capabilities and needs are so different in this world.

Someone of 'the next billion' lives in a world filled with games, too often played for life-and-death outcomes. It's a messy, complicated place some think might need saving. But within any world, with the right tools at hand, people will solve their own problems; they will create their own opportunities; they will imagine their own future.

The future is a frontier. To learn what (and who) comes next, we need only to look at the maps, listen to the stories, and inspect the artifacts made by people who problem-solve, who build, who imagine — not to save a world, but to build new (and improved) ones.