“technology has the potential to seriously improve coordination efforts.”

Miners often stand to benefit from ignoring their carbon footprint. A busier network roughly correlates to higher energy consumption and a higher trading price, increasing the value of the miners’ rewards.

Media Economies Design Lab,

the dominant design patterns of social-media technologies have constrained social and political possibilities, including the cultural options and possible power structures.

The self-governance I call for must be tailored to the context—sometimes highly participatory, other times relying more on trusteeship or representation, jury-like sortition or even market-based prediction.

“Fractals—a way to speak of the patterns we see—move from the micro to macro level.”

Agre reject the ultimate exit of Californian ambitions: the departure from bodily limits and social constraints.

This is a story of deep mediatization, in which media become inseparable from the practice of social life and the production of culture.

Metagovernance Project,