Governance and Citizenship in an Exponential Age.
@piamancini
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What are two aspects of our current democratic system that you like and two that you dislike?
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We are 21st century citizens living with 19th century institutions conceived with an information technology from the 15th century.
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Monopoly over the Land
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Identity
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Monopoly over the Data — Cloud
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Monopoly on providing a currency
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Bitcoin began the separation of Money & State.
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The Nation-State as the only institutional global actor
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What comes next?
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Our governance structures
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What do we want instead?
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What would you like it to be? What are the symptoms of a highly functioning democracy? What in a community signals that they live in a democracy that works?
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Who do we trust?
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Our representatives average between 0.0003% - 0.001%* of the voting population *New Scientist
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Learn how to trust ourselves
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In Direct Democracy every user has one direct vote.
In Liquid Democracy voting power can be delegated 21
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We can give ourselves an identity
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Voting mechanism
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! Argentina
Mexico
& Nigeria
" Brazil
% South Africa
$ Chile
) India
' Kenya
( Venezuela
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What jurisdictions?
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Currencies are belief systems \
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Will cryptocurrency communities become the constituencies of non territorial jurisdiction?
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
Buckminster Fuller