Decentralization cannot evolve in a vacuum. As decentralized technology becomes increasingly available, its application, adaptation, and evolution depend on society’s acceptance and use of the technology. While improved decentralized incentive designs can accelerate adoption, design alone will...

Decentralized systems enhance future algorithmic applications. Centralized algorithmic automation is a very powerful tool for humanity. It fulfills increasingly important roles in society for the betterment of humanity. It optimizes human interaction, outputs, and performance and can elevate...

The article shows that the technological precursors of decentralization require a reexamination of technological infrastructure for decentralized systems. Highlighting the past and present events in technology development that helped usher in the age of decentralization, the article examines the...

This article discusses the historical most relevant types of decentralization that helped usher in the age of decentralization. Key components of decentralization that are discussed herein include: decentralization of science, technological decentralization, organizational decentralization,...

Chapter 9 emphasizes the role of history in the creation of decentralized organizations. Access to historical records creates transparency and accountability and enables punishment and rewards in decentralized organizations which changes the motivations of members from a focus on immediate...

Chapter 6 underscores the importance of reputation systems for the decentralized economy. Reputation is the proper incentive, instead of money, for motivating the most efficient cooperation and long-term stability in business. Existing Web3 smart contract solutions often incentivize people to...

Chapter 5 discusses the core problems Web3 companies need to solve in order to achieve progress for the decentralized economy. The electrical revolution took more than a century to come to fruition, because of the need to develop uniform standards for production, transmission, storage, and...

This chapter presents a technical perspective on decentralized structures. The purpose of the chapter is to provide guideposts and an overview of the technical possibilities and limitations for the creation of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs). A core precept for the creation of DAOs...

This Chapter examines the future of decentralization. While humans who were raised in a centralized world by default turn to centralized solutions for societal problems, decentralized approaches are more effective for global problems. Decentralized networks encourage interoperability through...

Chapter 1 of the book explores the historical foundations of decentralized structures, starting with early hominids through Imperial China and the American Revolution. The primary goal of the chapter is to witness the central-decentral dichotomy in its evolutionary context to understand more...