“Technology is never neutral. Every protocol is a political act.”
🧠 Introduction
In 2019, I was deep into AI.
I believed intelligence was the frontier.
But something felt off.
The deeper I went, the more I saw what AI was really doing:
centralizing power, extracting data, and amplifying control.
It wasn’t that the tech was bad.
It was that the incentives behind it were deeply political — and largely invisible.
That’s when I made a choice.
To leave AI behind.
And to build onchain instead.
This final chapter of Project Voyager 03 (v03) is about that choice — and why the internet we build must be resistant by design.
🔍 The Problem: Neutral Tools, Political Outcomes
We like to think of tech as apolitical.
But the internet we live on today was shaped by decisions that were anything but neutral:
- Centralized data for “efficiency”
- Ad-based models for “growth”
- Blackbox algorithms for “engagement”
- Surveillance for “safety”
- Control for “scale”
These values weren’t inevitable.
They were chosen.
And the result?
A world where most of what we build depends on platforms, permissions, and power we don’t control.
⚙️ Why Blockchain is Political (and That’s Good)
Blockchain is often seen as financial infrastructure.
But it’s more than that — it’s a new substrate for governance, coordination, and resistance.
It offers:
- Censorship resistance by default
- Ownership as a primitive, not a permission
- Transparent rules, not invisible moderators
- Programmable value, not extractive middlemen
- Exit over loyalty — if you don’t like it, fork it
Every smart contract is a political document.
Every DAO vote is a form of governance.
Every wallet is an identity, free from platform lock-in.
That’s not just technical. It’s radical.
🛠️ Experiments We’re Running
At v03, everything we build carries this political DNA:
- Creative ownership systems (like Celluloid) that resist AI scraping
- Personal data vaults (Carbide, HashHeal) that reject surveillance capitalism
- Protocol-based social (Farcaster, Jezero) that replace corporate algorithms with public infrastructure
- Internet infra (Orbital) that resists censorship, outage, or monopoly
We’re not building apps.
We’re building alternatives.
💡 The Bigger Picture
The next 10 years will be defined by two competing visions of the internet:
- A hyper-efficient, AI-powered, closed platform world
- A messy, human, permissionless, decentralized protocol world
One optimizes for control.
The other for sovereignty.
If we want agency, expression, and freedom online —
we have to choose the second.
Not by talking about it.
But by building it, protocol by protocol.
🚀 Takeaway
In the end, Web3 is political — and that’s exactly why I’m here.
Because behind every line of code is a set of values.
Behind every protocol is a worldview.
v03 is my vote for a different internet.
One where power flows down, not up.
Where ownership is default, not earned.
And where freedom isn’t a feature — it’s the foundation.
Let’s build that world. Together.