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The NHK program Manga Artist Ienaga’s Super-Definition of a Complex Society, airing on Friday, April 7 from 11:15 p.m. for 30 minutes, will cover “Web3.” Its title is “Rapid Web3 Explainer: Web3 Is the Bright Future of the Internet… Really?!”

https://www.nhk.jp/p/ts/1M3MYJGG6G/episode/te/P2KG43YQYY/
(Source) “Web3 Is the Bright Future of the Internet… Really?! – Manga Artist Ienaga’s Super-Definition of a Complex Society – NHK”

Immediately after the program ends, I will invite Professor Matsuo, who supervised and appeared in it, and reporter Asakawa, editor of “An In-Depth Examination: Will Blockchain Make Humanity Happy?,” to a Twitter Space where we will discuss the background to its presentation and go into some very deep topics. Some other interesting people may even drop in unexpectedly?! Please join us.

NHKの放送「漫画家イエナガの複雑社会を超定義」でWeb3を取り上げます。今週金曜日23:15〜23:30です。これの監修と出演をされている松尾教授をお呼びして、この演出の背景だとか、ふかーい話だとかをやります。ぜひご参集ください。https://t.co/243H2vzIzY

— Nat Sakimura/崎村夏彦 (@_nat) April 6, 2023

Beforehand, you may enjoy it more if you

  • watch Chaplin’s Modern Times1
  • watch Chaplin’s The Great Dictator

and read

  • Book 8 of Plato’s Republic

and similar works.

Stay tuned!

【Editor’s Note】

Program Content

No rebroadcast is currently scheduled, but you can follow the outline at https://www.nhk.jp/p/ts/1M3MYJGG6G/blog/bl/pp2BabPyzp/bp/pzZJMWpvAz/. It would be nice if it became available on NHK On Demand so we could all watch it simultaneously, pausing along the way to add explanations. After all, it is a high-context program in which even the background illustrations carry significant meaning.

Here are several examples.

The Illustration of Ancient Greek Democracy in the Background

Behind Ienaga as he says, “Web3 is something that will set us free,” there is an illustration of ancient Greek democracy. The background to what this was intended to convey lies in Book 8 of Plato’s Republic.

“This freedom is surely the finest thing a democracy possesses”; “because of the insatiable desire for it and neglect of all other things,” it is “infected with anarchy,” and “tyranny arises from it.”
“Tyranny is established from no constitution other than democracy. From the highest degree of freedom arises the most savage and highest degree of slavery.”

(Source) Plato, Republic, Book 8

The Mouse and Gear Illustration

This is an allusion to Chaplin’s Modern Times: a metaphor for a DAO in which human beings are driven by impersonal gears.

The First Appearance of Web 2.0

Tim O’Reily’s Web2.0 is dated to 2005 in many sources, and the program also gives 2005, but in fact it appeared no later than 2004. It is mentioned in the Read/Write Web Interview of November 2004.

Read/Write Web Interview: Web 2.0 — November 2004. In Part 1 of this Read/Write Web interview, I talk with Richard MacManus about the Web 2.0 Conference, the relationships between Apple and the web and Microsoft and the web, and data ownership and lock-in. In Part 2, we explore business models for web content, including discussion of RSS. And Part 3 focuses on eBooks, social networking, collaboration, and Remix culture.

(Source) Tim O’Reilly: Web 2.0 and the Emergent Internet Operating System <https://www.oreilly.com/tim/p2p/>

Footnotes

  1. Surprisingly, perhaps because its copyright has expired, it cannot be viewed on paid video services…

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