' Sovereignty is intimately connected to physical abundance. Societies need to run on atoms. Materials, food, water, medicines. They began to wonder: what tools exist to develop local, independent, sustainable supply chains? Our answer was: biology. Using the tools of synthetic biology, perhaps this new Network State could one day meet all of its material needs by growing everything. Could they grow their own cement to make new buildings, their clothing, and their medicines by using biology as a technology?'
Dudes, Neil Stevenson already played out what it takes to create viable distributed enclaves in a world of super abundance. Somebody needs to read and grapple with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
I favor the Canton system under the UN in my books, then liquid democracy. For networking I'd combine Starlink with ETH commerce for BC certainty. It can be done overnight using a consensus VAT taxation standard, and resolves poverty per se. https://humanism.substack.com/p/bobby-and-elon-right-the-ship.
Yes, great narrative from many apparently #DeSci projects, but if you look under the hood, you’ll find facts like ~70% of $VITA is controlled by 20 top wallets (voting power has no anti-whale policy). Elites, talking about “zip code” disparities, offering their own token gated community controlled by themselves. Why not use BTC or eth to stake, invest, vote, etc or even stable coins…if they really care about “fairness”, “Open” and “decentralized” Science they should not require to purchase their own minted speculative asset to participate. My two cents.
We can organize against this obvious corruption. How? A @balajis @thenetworkstate Network State - a new decentralized 4th branch of government that isn't part of the government at all, but rather 100% built and run by the people. A whole new ecosystem. This includes a decentralized news network, decentralized science, a safe have for whistleblowers, a decentralized monetary system we all agree to in case the current one collapses, decentralized debates, a parallel transparent voting system, decentralized education , ballot initiatives and more. Consider this: https://joshketry.substack.com/p/lets-build-a-4th-branch-of-government
Great piece!
' Sovereignty is intimately connected to physical abundance. Societies need to run on atoms. Materials, food, water, medicines. They began to wonder: what tools exist to develop local, independent, sustainable supply chains? Our answer was: biology. Using the tools of synthetic biology, perhaps this new Network State could one day meet all of its material needs by growing everything. Could they grow their own cement to make new buildings, their clothing, and their medicines by using biology as a technology?'
This......Wow
Incredibly inspiring piece. My kind of future tribes!
Dudes, Neil Stevenson already played out what it takes to create viable distributed enclaves in a world of super abundance. Somebody needs to read and grapple with this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age
Very cool! Keep us posted on progress please 🤩🤗
I favor the Canton system under the UN in my books, then liquid democracy. For networking I'd combine Starlink with ETH commerce for BC certainty. It can be done overnight using a consensus VAT taxation standard, and resolves poverty per se. https://humanism.substack.com/p/bobby-and-elon-right-the-ship.
Yes, great narrative from many apparently #DeSci projects, but if you look under the hood, you’ll find facts like ~70% of $VITA is controlled by 20 top wallets (voting power has no anti-whale policy). Elites, talking about “zip code” disparities, offering their own token gated community controlled by themselves. Why not use BTC or eth to stake, invest, vote, etc or even stable coins…if they really care about “fairness”, “Open” and “decentralized” Science they should not require to purchase their own minted speculative asset to participate. My two cents.
DEsci comes with us organizing better.
We can organize against this obvious corruption. How? A @balajis @thenetworkstate Network State - a new decentralized 4th branch of government that isn't part of the government at all, but rather 100% built and run by the people. A whole new ecosystem. This includes a decentralized news network, decentralized science, a safe have for whistleblowers, a decentralized monetary system we all agree to in case the current one collapses, decentralized debates, a parallel transparent voting system, decentralized education , ballot initiatives and more. Consider this: https://joshketry.substack.com/p/lets-build-a-4th-branch-of-government