This may be part of a larger trend of “fragmentation”:
The disconnect can be profound; an American anime geek has more in common with a Japanese anime geek (who is of a different ethnicity, a different culture, a different religion, a different language…) than he does with an American involved in the evangelical Christian subculture. (...) The national identity fragments under the assault of burgeoning subcultures. At last, the critic beholds the natural endpoint of this process: the long nightmare of nationalism falls like a weight from the minds of the living, as the nation becomes some lines on a map, some laws you follow. No one particularly cares. The geek thinks, ’Meh: here, Canada, London, Japan, Singapore—as long as FedEx can reach me and there’s a good Internet connection, what’s the difference?
In a world of a geographically distributed mesh of subcultures, large chunks of the state’s responsibility can be handled by in decentralized ways. Everything from creating laws to adjudicating them can be handled by dispersed, asynchronous groups of strangers, essentially replacing whole swathes of existing bureaucracy with chains and contracts.
What I’m not sure about though is what happens with the state’s ability to enforce and police, ie. what happens when someone objects to a decision dictated by a blockchain? How do you deal with squatters or looters? Will we see the rise of decentralized security forces, something like “Police DAOs”?
This may be part of a larger trend of “fragmentation”:
Source: https://www.gwern.net/The-Melancholy-of-Subculture-Society
In a world of a geographically distributed mesh of subcultures, large chunks of the state’s responsibility can be handled by in decentralized ways. Everything from creating laws to adjudicating them can be handled by dispersed, asynchronous groups of strangers, essentially replacing whole swathes of existing bureaucracy with chains and contracts.
What I’m not sure about though is what happens with the state’s ability to enforce and police, ie. what happens when someone objects to a decision dictated by a blockchain? How do you deal with squatters or looters? Will we see the rise of decentralized security forces, something like “Police DAOs”?