Blockchains are the new Linux, not the new internet

blockchains today aren’t like the internet in 1996; they’re more like Linux in 1996... vastly more democratic, and more technically compelling, than ... internet of today. Similarly, open-source Linux was vastly more democratic, and more technically compelling, than the Microsoft and Apple OSes that ruled computing at the time. But nobody used it except a tiny coterie of hackers. It was too clunky... mainstream solutions were, in fact, actually fine, for most people...
Linux did not become important because ordinary people used it. Instead it became commodity infrastructure that powered the next wave of the internet... an interwoven mesh of dozens of decentralized blockchains could slowly, over a period of years and years, become a similar category of crucial infrastructure