From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond: The Quest for Identity and Autonomy in a Digital Society
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| Anteprima |
What can we learn from Bitcoin and Burning Man about re-inventing money and designing better forms of self-governance?
Why are “decentralized autonomous organizations” the next great Internet disruption?
From
Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond: The Quest for Autonomy and Identity
in a Digital Society explores a new generation of digital technologies
that are re-imagining the very foundations of identity, governance,
trust and social organization.
The fifteen essays of this book
stake out the foundations of a new future – a future of open Web
standards and data commons, a society of decentralized autonomous
organizations, a world of trustworthy digital currencies and
self-organized and expressive communities like Burning Man.
Among
the contributors are Alex “Sandy” Pentland of the M.I.T. Human Dynamics
Laboratory, former FCC Chairman Reed E. Hundt, long-time IBM strategist
Irving Wladawksy-Berger, monetary system expert Bernard Lietaer,
Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Hirshberg, journalist Jonathan Ledgard
and H-Farm cofounder Maurizio Rossi.
From Bitcoin to Burning
Man and Beyond was edited by Dr. John H. Clippinger, cofounder and
executive director of ID3, [http://www.idcubed.org] and David Bollier,
[http://www.bollier.org] an Editor at ID3 who is also an author, blogger
and scholar who studies the commons. The book, published by ID3 in
association with Off the Common Books, reflects ID3’s vision of the
huge, untapped potential for self-organized, distributed governance on
open platforms.
One chapter that inspires the book’s title
traces the 28-year history of Burning Man, the week-long encampment in
the Nevada desert that have hosted remarkable experimentation in new
forms of self-governance by large communities. Other chapters explore
such cutting-edge concepts as:
• evolvable digital contracts that could supplant conventional legal agreements;
• smartphone currencies that could help Africans meet their economic needs more effective;
• the growth of the commodity-backed Ven currency; and
• new types of “solar currencies” that borrow techniques from Bitcoin to enable more efficient, cost-effective solar generation and sharing by homeowners.
• evolvable digital contracts that could supplant conventional legal agreements;
• smartphone currencies that could help Africans meet their economic needs more effective;
• the growth of the commodity-backed Ven currency; and
• new types of “solar currencies” that borrow techniques from Bitcoin to enable more efficient, cost-effective solar generation and sharing by homeowners.
From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond also
introduces the path-breaking software platform that ID3 has developed
called “Open Mustard Seed,” or OMS. https://idcubed.org/open-
“OMS
is an integrated, open source package of programs that lets people
collect and share personal information in secure, and transparent and
accountable ways, enabling authentic, trusted social and economic
relationships to flourish,” said Dr. Clippinger.
