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I will argue that the constraints on governance in online spaces have contributed to the peril of democratic politics in general. It is not enough to merely defend existing governmental institutions; healthy democracy depends on enabling creative new forms of self-governance, especially on networks.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
he first figuratively and then literally set out to “play God,” initially by making the claim that humans had the power of gods and then during the past decade by creating an organization to save and restore endangered species with modern biotechnology.
John Markoff • Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand
Noah Goldstein
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The nature of the medium of token ownership and unstoppability means we no longer need to extract profits to realize value creation. We can create ‘for-public’, with a new underlying value system that means the value created in Hyperstructures far exceeds any amount of profits that can be extracted in the immediate term, and can be recognized for t... See more
Rex Woodbury • Zora and the Rise of Cryptomedia
While writing this article I pulled together a very early “proof-of-concept” for a DeSci publishing platform called SciFoundry. So far, SciFoundry is an ERC721 smart contract hosted on the Rinkeby testnet. Users can mint their articles and receive an NFT which can be viewed on Opensea. Anyone can download the full article and its assets using the e... See more
Joseph Cook • DeSci: The case for Decentralised Science | Gitcoin Blog
Beyond Cryptoeconomics: Platform Cooperativism and the Future of Blockchain Governance
Nathan Schneiderthereboot.comNathan Cheng
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