The imagination and assumptions on how to get it just right will remain a big debate. Sometimes we wait to consider how vast Internet experience could have been if a lot of things fit in early. Not that I am saying this is a small environment but the fact remains that dominant activities are still happening offline and yes, many people are even broken off from what is going on here. Online experience has criterias; this is a limitation. How many traders do we have online? How about offline; here, even granny has access.
One of the challenges of upcoming platforms and ecosystems is how they completely break themselves off from what happens in the offline realms. Even the traditional banking systems know they need that local goods seller in the market and they make sure she opens a bank account. The idea is, although she may not use it frequently but when demand calls, they have a chance of securing a deposit. We are talking of liquidity here; something that goes beyond focusing on big names.
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What makes up a good online platform? IX and UX will be those TOP priorities. Not bad, that landing page has to be precise and welcoming. Secondly, users must easily navigate through each page; view service and place orders in case of an e-commerce site. It is even better I decided to use an e-commerce site because actually, the online space is a front end of an inevitable backend.
Yes, the offline environment will always be that behind the scene that keeps the internet space going. There are so many things to talk of, it is more like praising the computer software and forgetting how vital those hardware components are. Infrastructures must be well placed and regularly attended to to see a smooth online experience. I could remember last month when a cloud service went down and we weren't able to access Hive from any frontend.
Getting back to that e-commerce store, lets say they are selling clothes and a customer decides to place an order for one and pays for it. First, how and where was the clothe manufactured? Of course it was from the offline setting before it was accessed through the internet. Secondly, this raises the awareness of backend transactions in the process.
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Maybe we can also look at the future of Real world assets. This industry is not going to vanish into the virtual space, NO. Rather it will be a permutation activity as values placed on physical assets get cloned into the digital space.
What places value on a building? Its occupant use; maybe a hotel, a warehouse, residential apartment, stores, space leasing and the rest which yes humans will be in general those adding value to scale its prices in the online markets.
Why am I spending time analyzing ALL these? So many basics are being ignored. It was something I talked of recently on one of the tactics or needed techniques to scale Hive as an ecosystem. Maybe, just maybe we are too broken apart from what is happening in the offline environment. Value is first captured from the offline space into the online. So how does a retail store fit into this platform? Or maybe I should just generalize it, ‘how do the locals feed in?’. Do they have a place here?
To conclude, let me add, the growth of web3 is to make every effort to become more of an everybody's environment. Internet experience should not be seen as more of just an app but a frontend of something much bigger. In short, we can call it a stairway that connects human’s offline activities. If the online space remains a space for top notches only; something that even gets ‘notcher’ if I should say in the web3 environment, then the loopholes are large. The top question to answer here is; ‘how will everyone fit in?’.
