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Year2000
InnovationText
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A Computational Narrative

The Trust
Paradox

Shih-Wen Huang
Design & Data
01

The Weight of Matter

3000 BCE. Value is physical. Trust is verified by touch, weight, and utility. There is no abstraction, only collision.

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02

The Golden Standard

600 BCE - 1900 AD. Chaos is stamped into order. Institutions introduce standardization. Value becomes stackable.

03

The Great Abstraction

1971 AD. Money detaches from gold. It becomes a liquid promise, floating on the wind of global markets.

04

The Digital Ledger

2009 AD. Matter dissolves into math. Trust moves from institutions to protocols. The network reveals itself.