The internet was supposed to allow the spread of free speech across the world. Then silicon valley invented internet spying tech and created the software for state sponsored firewalls.
Will blockchain kill corporations? I suspect they do more to oppress people than nation-states do, and I doubt governments could do much without the cooperation of the private sector. For example, the Nazi regime had to get their Zyklon-B from Bayer AG. The NSA is getting much of their data from telecoms, ISPs, and social media companies. And then there's Palantir.
As a computer science person, a programmer, a "systems thinker", frankly I find this talk embarrassing because of how extraordinarily out of touch it is. Like, the logistics of meatspace don't exist. As if information was all that was necessary for people to feed their lives. Wake up, go outside, please. People need food, shelter, housing, transportation, jobs to be productive at, medicine. We need agriculture and trade of goods and services. We need energy and protection, courts, passtimes, identity, and religious outlets.
Blockchain and the internet don't have police. They don't provide any meatspace service, and couldn't, in their disembodied unreality. There's no system of justice that pops automatically out of some blockchain feverdream. The internet doesn't spring up from the ground and twist its wires around lightpoles. Nation states are not going anywhere, ffs. Meatspace needs governance and logistics that aren't pushing buttons on keyboards.
> Will blockchain kill corporations? I suspect they do more to oppress people than nation-states do, and I doubt governments could do much without the cooperation of the private sector.
I'm seeing this "battle" play out now wrt DAO's that incorporate vs DAO's that do not, both are discussing things relating to how to operate online and in the "meatspace" as well as allocate/distribute resources in both.
I'm finding the conversation and decisions made by DAO's that do not incorporate far more interesting: talks from (with crypto) co-opting (via funding) local gangs around the world and "off grid" (still connected to the grid to bypass varying compliance related issues wrt local regs, but usage of such will as minimal) multi-purpose bulidings to funding local (bio)hacker spaces on top of the usual funding/building DeFi things.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 18.5 ms ] threadSo I'm a bit skeptical on this claim.
Blockchain and the internet don't have police. They don't provide any meatspace service, and couldn't, in their disembodied unreality. There's no system of justice that pops automatically out of some blockchain feverdream. The internet doesn't spring up from the ground and twist its wires around lightpoles. Nation states are not going anywhere, ffs. Meatspace needs governance and logistics that aren't pushing buttons on keyboards.
> Will blockchain kill corporations? I suspect they do more to oppress people than nation-states do, and I doubt governments could do much without the cooperation of the private sector.
I'm seeing this "battle" play out now wrt DAO's that incorporate vs DAO's that do not, both are discussing things relating to how to operate online and in the "meatspace" as well as allocate/distribute resources in both.
I'm finding the conversation and decisions made by DAO's that do not incorporate far more interesting: talks from (with crypto) co-opting (via funding) local gangs around the world and "off grid" (still connected to the grid to bypass varying compliance related issues wrt local regs, but usage of such will as minimal) multi-purpose bulidings to funding local (bio)hacker spaces on top of the usual funding/building DeFi things.