Because the fact is we encode our biases into data, into algorithms, into technology as a whole. So as we develop an increasingly machine-driven future, we need to encode machines with the best of who we are. And in that way, infuse the future with our brightest hope, our most egalitarian views, our most evolved understandings.
When Snap launched, there were infinite way to share images, but Snap asked a bunch of weird questions that no-one had really asked before. Why do you have to press the camera button - why doesn’t the app open in the camera? Why are you saving your messages - isn’t that like saving all your phone calls? Fundamentally, Snap asked ‘why, exactly, are... See more
Wikipedia was, in some ways, the first Media DAO (I'm not the first person to say this)
I listened to co-founder of Wikipedia @jimmy_wales speak last week
He said something I keep thinking about, so I gotta do a quick thread 🧵
Token Governance means all holders need to vote in order to effect change. This is “positive consent” in the sense that enough stakeholders need to actively approve a new proposal. It functions as an Executive Branch, maintaining full authority over all other components of the system.
In a 2010 essay, Chris Dixon wrote, "The next big thing will start out looking like a toy." Provocative. What he meant was that new technologies are often dismissed as toys because they undershoot user needs, and that that ones that make it out of toy phase and into the zeitgeist do so because they ride external forces.