Description:

We'll focus on multiple decentralizing and potentially democratizing technologies including blockchains, the spatial web, the metaverse, artificial intelligence, the internet of things and cryptocurrencies, and how their convergence will impact the future of business, governance and society. For example, permissionless blockchains (also known as trustless or public blockchains) are open networks available to everyone to participate in the consensus process that blockchains use to validate transactions and data. This architecture creates the possibility of global open-source civic networks and generative economic coalitions surpassing the capacities of both state hierarchies and capital market dynamics. Blockchain technologies could enable the construction of a technological commonwealth (CryptoCommons) wherein advanced exchange, communication, and decision‐making technologies are used to aggregate, distribute, and govern capital at multiple levels and on a cooperative basis. My research focuses on the emerging ethical questions related to the impact of technology on humanity and how a commons-based economic model with a new approach to value, ownership, production, equity, work processes, and social dynamics can be built. While still in the minority, there is a diverse and growing global community experimenting with distributed technologies to create alternative forms of production, relationships, and ownership, with radically new and different logics beyond extraction, exploitation, market competition, and private ownership. I will offer the audience several examples of projects of this type across several different industries.

Takeaways:
The shared reality we inhabit ten years from now will look radically different from today.
We need to think about the ethical implications of these new technologies and the laws that will be required to democratically govern physical/digital spaces.
Design choices made early in its implementation lay down path dependenci