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Can you have a boring life and be a first-rate social scientist? To some extent, probably yes. You can be very smart and figure our how people behave under conditions that you have never yourself experienced—nor anyone you know. I cannot say it is impossible. But I think it is unlikely: because it in human nature, however smart we may be, to

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Even if participants don't explicitly capture a system, governance may still create unintended side effects. For example, formal governance systems can encourage action versus inaction, even when inaction is superior.

In January 2015, Airbnb launched a social media campaign with the hashtag #OneLessStranger. More than 3,000,000 people worldwide joined the campaign in just three weeks, creating content and actively talking about the campaign.

Companies selling cars, cereal, and printers benefit when prices decrease for gasoline, milk, and ink, because the total price of a product includes the product plus anything else you need to maximize its potential--the complement.

In an interoperable world, a contributor's work to one community can be leveraged in another, as on-chain data and smart contracts are largely interoperable by default. Reputation is another currency coveted within a traditional corporation, and one that is often lost in the realm of purely individualized work. There is no standard for... See more