I saw Star Wars: The Last Jedi like everyone else did. Which may be a lie, I was actually taking notes during most of the movie. The notes were regarding the technology, and how the Star Wars universe would run off decentralized technology. Decentralized technologies which are mainly possible because the inception of bitcoin and blockchain.
Of course, another tie in to the decentralized technology is that the whole Star Wars saga is based around politics. Government trying to consolidate, while the people decentralize each time.
Centralized = empire. Decentralized = rebels. Sort of like the saga of Bitcoin, other crypto-assets, and their decentralized technologies. The root is political.
In this article series, I will be focusing on the decentralized technology aspect of crypto-assets. I could easily start a series on the similarities between the politics of Star Wars and the politics of crypto-assets. Both represent the struggle for autonomy via decentralization.
The decentralized technologies that spawned from bitcoin and distributed ledger technology include blockchain, swarm intelligence, smart contracts, DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations), DAGs (directed acyclic graphs).
An interesting tidbit is when I saw Rogue One in 2016, I didn't have a tech background. Yet, shortly after began full time studies of crypto-assets and decentralized technologies. So, when I saw Star Wars: The Last Jedi, I felt I was watching Star Wars from a new technological perspective.
This is when I came up with the idea for this Steemit article series, Star Wars and Decentralized Technology.
There are some questions I would like to answer.
- If Star Wars universe was assumed to be fully centralized, how many servers (single points of failure) would they need to protect at all times? Which would be how many floating data warehouses, or stationary ones? They would need way more guards than are shown in the movie, imo.
To first figure out the server space, the technologies need to be inventoried by watching the series and movies.
- Then for the sake of figuring out how decentralized their universe is, we would need to take the inventoried technology and rank if centralized technology can cover its functions at a high level without many issues. Then that allows for us to get a percentage of how much of the technology can be centralized without issues. The rest we can attribute to requiring decentralized technologies.
Regarding that, there's always an explosion happening. This means they constantly need the resources to rebuild. It seems like that would also tie into mapping out the major economies of Star Wars, cryptocurrencies. (Another large task!)
I'm sure if they're travelling at lightspeed they have blockchain, DAGs (directed acyclic graphs), IoT, M2M (machine to machine) economy, AI (artificial intelligence), AR (augmented reality), VR (virtual reality), and all that mastered.
I believe that the Star Wars universe would have to be decentralized because the galaxy encounters all kinds of conditions. The tech needs to be smart enough to re-calibrate itself accordingly to the atmospheres that it's traveling through - at light speed! I could be wrong, but that kind of resiliency does not seem best served by centralized technologies.
Even if I can't answer these questions right away, I plan to work on this series as time permits. If anyone would like to contribute to this project, contact me!
Let me know if I've made some mistakes about the technology. In addition, I will be focusing on producing shorter articles while working on this, to earn money.
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