Source: Underthrow
by Max Borders
“In the past, humans had to get big things done through different structures of social coherence. Whether it was allegiance to the Queen and Country or fear of IRS agents breaking down your door, social coherence was achievable. But more and more, getting big things done will be carried out through biomimicry. That is, we’ll act more like bees. Distributed ledgers aren’t AI supercomputers that figure everything out or tell us what to do. In many distributed ledgers, more like what bitcoin expert Andreas Antonopoulos calls ‘dumb networks,’ only with fairly smart beings as nodes in those networks. And those beings have billions of perspectives. ‘They will act as the connective tissue between humans and machines, mediated by incentives,’ writes Goro. ‘If humans are neurons in the human hive mind, blockchain technology acts as the connective tissue and neurotransmitters.'” (06/24/24)