Thread by @JESSCATE93

we have been thinking about the relationship between __data__ and NFTs @OwnershipLabs (roaming 🧵)

The data is not the result, not the final output, but the time you spend on the web and the process you interact with it, the "footprint🦶" of your attention.

It sounds a bit abstract, as if my attention 👀 is a real person with 🦶. It wanders around the web, stops at a blog, applauds in front of a JPG, goes for a video and gets high all afternoon... This series of footprints are recorded.

And here's another example
Jessie wrote an article that cited 10 NFTs, all of which were not just a JPG or video, but relationships with context, altogether they formed a network of relationships.

It's like a structured paper where each cited reference is clearly marked at the end of the article, author, page number, title, publication, time, etc.

Holy shit, that constitutes a relational database.

#NFTs are contextual media which contributes to a knowledge graph.

In this case, NFTs are structured data, which contain descriptions of authors, page numbers, title, publications, time, etc. Remember what @jessewldn said NFTs as a ‘canonical content registry’ where every unique work would get a canonical ID that you could append metadata to.

Thus, when any person wants to 'cite', she can do two things:

First, cite it __directly__. You don't even have to own the work, because each of your citations is an act of dissemination (every citation is a word spread). The value of the original work shouldnt decrease at least.

Second, seek the __acknowledgment__ of the original author, and then this work overlaid with all thinking Lego combined will become a new NFT, representing your connection to other 🧠s.

@cdixon says that under the early skeuomorphic nature of the website, it was simply a digital adaptation of the Internet, which went through 10 years of iterations from read-only to writable.

https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1440343035737305098

Tokens are still in skeuomorphic now, so the question is, how to make it from read-only to writable?
- skeuomorphic - adaptations of older domains - read-only
- Native - UGC - writable

Both token and NFT are instilling in users the meaning of property rights, the ability to own a part of the internet.

But let's think further, what about the ability to __refer and link__ to the Internet?

The Internet itself is a network, but 1st should keep it individual basis (let individual OWN things), then link people and their minds. If tokens are digital primitives, then what she draws is the network of ideas and the network of people.🕸️🧠

Just like how many times you have been forked in github and how many times your paper has been cited in a thesis, in the token economy, any idea generated by anyone on the internet has the potential to be cited by another person, and then,

comes the connection, and the value.

That's what the layer of Curation does, and I'm just making a rough poc of it now. For example, I cite some artist NFT works in my video and curate them to my dataverse (our curation extension and data space). Then I minted this work into a new NFT...

"NFT combo"

@cicatriz 's ✨write-up made me think further about__curation__ ,he suggests two (actually, three) ways to curate piece of the internet:

block-based
page-based

https://twitter.com/cicatriz/status/1439596741515522059

"A simple implementation of page-based model is page ownership corresponds to an NFT, which also allows ownership trading.

TokenPage should offer owners a strong power: determining the canonical knowledge of a topic."

I discussed earlier that the premise is individual basis, now block-based roam and page-based NFT can achieve this to some degree. The solution we deliver(as of now) is to create a tool that works as tools for thought and gives individuals ownership of their attentional behavior.

But the problem is the utilities that can be enabled by the native properties of NFT have not yet exploded (NFT is still in the skeuomorphic stage).

Refer to Chris Dixon, comparably in the read-only stage of the website, it is not yet writable.

https://twitter.com/cdixon/status/1440026963037589522

the puzzle still is, what exactly is NFT capable of, not only the creators can immerse their thoughts into this medium, but also what others can do, what can the curators do? those drain the rainwater into the pipes and into the rivers.

NOT just read-only, how to be writable?

Ryan 继续了我关于__curation__的思考，他提出了两种（其实是三种）具体的方式。

我们都在想如何让网络上代表人思想的媒介具有如同乐高的能力。整个网络如何refer to each other?

我之前讨论过，前提是individual basis (就是让个人有权利首先），而不是tech company 掌控一切。但是现在的问题是，NFT的native属性能够enable的utility还没有爆发（NFT还处于skeuomorphic拟物阶段），现在正如Chris Dixon所说，如同当时网站的只读阶段，没到可写呢。

就是说，现在欠的火候是，NFT到底能干嘛，不仅是创作者能把自己的思想搬到这个媒介上，也是其他人能干嘛，占更大多数的curator能干嘛？别老只读啊，如何可写？

oh i also remember @elaptics raised a beautiful question in his newsletter (2020),

"Should @RoamResearch stay as the source of notes and ideas with knowledge maps at different levels to explore the topic and source materials of the author, while books provide the narrative?

Or could there be a future of distributed knowledge across many graphs, with the value in **curation**? You could access multiple interpretations and pathways through the material; perhaps making your own connections back to your graph along the way?"

Defining a format (or sort of thing) and then people get into it, Like words' root, around it emerges many derivatives.

In this way, Loot started this context for NFTs, and its derivative @lootlang is creating the language around it.

Julian Jaynes said in <The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind>

"Each new stage of words literally created new perceptions and attentions, language must make dramatic changes in man's attention, because it allows a transfer of info of enormous scope."