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The foundational trade-off of the internet was to cast scarcity, consensus, and identity aside in favor of freedom and openness.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
The claim establishes one of the central debates of our time: the power relationship between sovereignty and networks.
Alexander R. Galloway • The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Electronic Mediations)
Packy McCormick • Minimally Extractive Meta
If democracy is the horizon, self-governance is a plausible practice for moving in that direction. Governable spaces, then, are where democratic self-governance can happen.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
We need to create new social mechanisms to spread out the gains of the new platform economics—perhaps even a Basic Income allotted to every person, in addition to the Flexicurity principles.
Robin Chase • Peers Inc
Third, this constant and pointless demand for financialization will create political and business opportunities to better facilitate it.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
“we have entered a different phase for the economy, a new era where production matters less and what matters more is access to that production: distribution, in other words—who gets what and how they get it”[282]. In this context, there