We might also need to learn how to live with mistakes that are public and find a way to allow for the type of behavior that Joan Didion describes: “‘We were just crazy kids,’” they say without regret, and look to the future. The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past.” In other words, we might have to learn t... See more

It’s easy to imagine that the requirements for truth-telling might fundamentally change. Narrative would need to be supported with transaction data. In fact, transaction data itself will likely become the narrative, and truth will be defined simply as a collection of transactions hashed and validated on the blockchain. 

If blockchains (and blockchain analysis tools) become sufficiently widely adopted, checking what someone says they did against what they actually did will be a trivial technical operation.

In order to have a transformational impact on the world, we need DAOs to scale beyond experiments. There is a risk that if they can’t successfully scale what they do, their potentially transformational innovations will just get co-opted by more centralised organisations (pseudo-DAOs and companies), who can more effectively scale and exploit them. L... See more