Imagine you woke up this Monday morning and governments everywhere had simply dissappeared.
My voluntaryist and anarchist friends would rejoice and dance in the streets, probably because they understand democide more than most. Many of them also don't understand the significant benefits to society that hierarchy brings. As Thomas Sowell says, there are no solutions, only tradeoffs. So, if the violent hierarchy was gone today, what would we do next?
How would humanity build a new society? How would they find consensus and coordinate to administer shared resources? Maybe they'd use something like this: http://bit.ly/fiogroups-deck
This is just a prototype to illustrate an idea. It's an idea that may end up being more disruptive than blockchain just as bitcoin is becoming more disruptive than the Internet (which is the title of a talk I gave in 2013). The idea is this:
You own yourself within community.
You own the full responsibility of our actions, decisions, intentions, unintended consequences, externalities, profits, successes, failures, and more. Only by clear signal can we all learn from our previous actions to make better decisions towards better actions in the future to create a world we all want to live in.
Using blockchains can help us find group consensus, manage group resources, have open, transparent decision making about who will administer the group and help it come to consensus. With good signal (not noise caused often by the threats of violence in most governance systems today), we can more effectively evolve.