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rob05c  ·  3134 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: I, for one, do not welcome our new Neoliberal overlords.

    Aside from the centralized administration of services like Uber and Airbnb, IMO they indicate positive possibilities for granular economic models.

I think Distributed Systems might be the next big revolution. I hope it is, actually.

By "distributed systems", I mean any decentralized service, physical or digital. Decentralised transportation, Uber without a company behind it. Decentralised internet, both physical connections—weather balloons, microsatellites, take your pick—and the web servers we connect to. Currency. Everything.

It's a hard problem. It's mathematically hard. But we're just now developing both the mathematics and computational power for it to be possible, for the first time in history.

That might be your Technological → Economic → Political revolution. I'm still skeptical; this is mostly a tangent. But it's possible. Decentralisation will be a big revolution, if it happens.





mk  ·  3134 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's my hope. I just lobbied insomniasexx to be a curator of The DAO, yesterday. :)