I’m scared of Web 3.0.

I just watched “The Quick and the Dead” and I am scared to death of Web 3.0.

Go to jail. I know that it was a horrible movie.

Tonight was slightly different. There was no good chill pad within stumbling distance of my hotel so I went to the convince store for dinner, picked up a 12 pack of Yuengling, and headed to the hot tub. Maybe the headstrong nature of the Yuengling sons*1 contributed my current mood, but I’m totally cereal; I’m scared of web 3.0.

Maybe it was the time that I discovered the Libertarian party, only to learn that my Dad was registered Libertarian 8 years before I was born. Maybe it was the time I thought I would introduce Ron Paul as a candidate to my Dad, only to learn that he was one of the 432,179 who voted for his presidency 20 years before this coming election.*2 Or, maybe it was the first time my Dad beat me at Guitar Hero. I don’t know, but the principal is the same. Just like in “The Quick and the Dead,” a father has to be better then his son; if not, who does the son have to look up to? And that is why I am scared of Web 3.0.

We have all read Neuromancer.*3 We think we are tough shit right now, but the world has changed an awful lot in the last 13 years. It is the next 13 that frighten me. When I have a son, will I must still be in tune with the world enough to be better then him. Nothing scares me more then conceiving a son who can beat me. The kind of worldview that that will build can destroy a man. I don’t know what is in store, but all I can do is stay in touch, and keep ready. Son, I’m ready for you.


1 http://www.beerhistory.com/library/holdings/yuengling.shtml
2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_Party_(United_States)
3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer