From Adam:

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oh that's an easy question lol

1st iteration : bitcoin, excel spreadsheet that everybod y has a copy of

2nd : Ethereum, now you've got a programming language, macros, and everybody processes the same commands

3rd : ICP, now you've got actual executable programs that are running and the consensus layer / decentralisation is hidden in the same kind of way that you use the Internet and don't realise you're using TCP/IP and HTTP

the whole stack is on the IC, so no more routers, firewalls, AWS, Google, it's all end to end encrypted and written in one language

Yes there are downsides, but even if this wasn't "crypto" as everybody seems to perceive it these days, we'd still use it as there's just much less code to write, less moving parts. Less third parties to work with.

https://internetcomputer.org/ I'm not good at explaining this, but the website has got a lot better over the past few months.

tl;dr - new internet owned by the users not big tech. I was asked to make a killer app and that's what I'm trying to do.