Technologies alone can't fix the collapse we're in.
Technologies belong to the realm of COMPLICATED things (eg. computers, plains, bridges, phones, etc.). We have become better and better at PRODUCING these.
Economies, ecosystems and human organisations belong to the realm of COMPLEX things. These we do not produce, we MANAGE, and our management is worsening them every day. (see Allan Savory and Dave Snowden).
In his talk "Tech and Freedom", @jack (Festival of the Sun, 2024) talks about the need for permission-less money, communication and intelligence, and how BTC, NOSTR, and open source AI can get us there. Jack also alerts us that the challenge ahead is not to secure free speech, but free will, due to social engineering practiced by corporate owned AI and how it hijacks our internal and external network connections' intelligence.
What about permission-less farming and food systems?
I don't think we can fix farming and food systems solely replacing the currency/technology used. We need a different management culture. For thousands of years we used money mostly to transact with strangers and buy a very few items we could not produce our selves and source in gift and barter economies (Graeber, and Graeber and Wengrow).
If BTC, NOSTR or any open source IA, for this matter, fails to nurture a culture that humbly accepts that we cannot control nature, let alone fathom the intelligence of its network developed to foster Life over billions of years, people might be 'rich' and capable of P2P transactions, but they will not have a healthy food choice and might even eventually starve for lack of food in some places.
Shouldn't we be using technologies to nurture a culture that secures local and sovereign healthy food systems as well as descentralised economic systems? Shouldn't we be focusing more on reestablishing the human values and social fabric capable of sustaining abundance through gift and barter systems mainly and using money (BTC, for this matter) mainly as a complementary tool?
Some food for thought...
Technologies alone can't fix the collapse we're in.
Technologies belong to the realm of COMPLICATED things (eg. computers, plains, bridges, phones, etc.). We have become better and better at PRODUCING these.
Economies, ecosystems and human organisations belong to the realm of COMPLEX things. These we do not produce, we MANAGE, and our management is worsening them every day. (see Allan Savory and Dave Snowden).
In his talk "Tech and Freedom", @jack (Festival of the Sun, 2024) talks about the need for permission-less money, communication and intelligence, and how BTC, NOSTR, and open source AI can get us there. Jack also alerts us that the challenge ahead is not to secure free speech, but free will, due to social engineering practiced by corporate owned AI and how it hijacks our internal and external network connections' intelligence.
What about permission-less farming and food systems?
I don't think we can fix farming and food systems solely replacing the currency/technology used. We need a different management culture. For thousands of years we used money mostly to transact with strangers and buy a very few items we could not produce our selves and source in gift and barter economies (Graeber, and Graeber and Wengrow).
If BTC, NOSTR or any open source IA, for this matter, fails to nurture a culture that humbly accepts that we cannot control nature, let alone fathom the intelligence of its network developed to foster Life over billions of years, people might be 'rich' and capable of P2P transactions, but they will not have a healthy food choice and might even eventually starve for lack of food in some places.
Shouldn't we be using technologies to nurture a culture that secures local and sovereign healthy food systems as well as descentralised economic systems? Shouldn't we be focusing more on reestablishing the human values and social fabric capable of sustaining abundance through gift and barter systems mainly and using money (BTC, for this matter) mainly as a complementary tool?
Some food for thought...
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