A matter of autonomy?

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Chapter two: Establishment

challenged the way of organizing ourselves in groups, collaborating at large scale in a more ad hoc and informal dynamic. This distributed system beyond Blockchain is called distributed autonomous organization or DAO. While Blockchain was based on a set of decisions made by individual actors, it had no formal way of recognizing them, and neither the functional consensus, but just ability to validate transactions. The DAO open the door for collective behavior and open the idea of ad hoc gathering. These distributed protocols created a circle of trust within the fish swarm. Our trust in computer as a neutral judge was leading us to entirely automated managed network. These automated protocols inspired how a collective intelligence of the swarm could appear on the digital space. The internet redefined mass collaboration, with platforms such as Wikipedia, the largest encyclopedia ever written, with over 4 million entries written by volunteers. Surprisingly enough, in an area where money and growth were the fuel of the society, individuals were sharing and building together a platform of knowledge without any directive or reward. The management of 48


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