The core concept that I've been thinking of over the past few days, as I get more exposed to block-chain, its implementations and the emerging technologies, is that it's implementation is partially a product of its design (the way the environment is set up to distribute 'value' to users and stakeholders and the corresponding level of 'power' that these people have), but primarily the community that it attracts.

At the inception of a great idea, the crowd that will be attracted will be those that believe in it's future and can envision it's impact and benefits in the time to come. As the system evolves it's strength is initially determined by those that are powering it (the great minds that conceived the idea, the developers that help the evolution of the source code, and mind you both parties need to continue to do that for the platform to achieve greatness and maintain it) and it's value is enhanced by the users that begin to adopt it.

But as time goes by, and a great idea becomes a great product, it goes mainstream and attracts people from all over the world. It's adaptation changes. It begins to mirror basic human values and morals. When a system is scaled up, there needs to be some sort of power source that regulates and empowers it. There needs to be a governing body that moderates issues and helps prevent bottlenecks. Note that I do not mention centralized or decentralized when I say power source and governing body. I am just saying that it needs to exist.

As a system scales larger and larger I think that even those systems that were designed decentralized begin to centralize. And the reflection of the dominant human morals and values begin to show much more than before.

The solution to this is a global revolution in spiritual growth. If human's as a species migrated towards self reflection and ascend in their level of consciousness as a collective, and come to realize that collective growth is much more potent that scattered individual growth, then and then only will any well implemented and large scale system be truly successful by any ethical and moral standards.

The status quo of human morality is like broken shards of glass, all they can be used for are gashing flesh and bleeding life, bring those shards of glass together and fit the curves and edges together and a blurry picture begins to emerge. Work on it as a collective to glue the pieces and polish the surface and we can start seeing the blue in the sky and the beauty of our own images. It's a colossal task, one that I hope mankind can achieve. But it all starts with our own small broken piece of glass.

Philosophy aside, I think that when people are educated to understand the power of emerging technologies (and especially those with a non technical background), we can start taking a step in a positive direction. As time goes by we can perfect which platform/system gets the architecture right. But unless we educate, we can not change the fundamental nature of human beings.