https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/against-the-internet-centric-totalizing-anti-hierarchy-and-anti-centralization-ideology/2013/02/09 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:11:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/against-the-internet-centric-totalizing-anti-hierarchy-and-anti-centralization-ideology/2013/02/09/comment-page-1#comment-509157 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:11:58 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=29451#comment-509157 Even with radical decentralization (everyone has equal access to resources, information, abundance) you’ll still get various forms of centralization, and even hierarchy, except this time those “spontaneous orders” will be participatory, autopoetic, revocable, forkable, and *not* coercive. Voluntary modes of organization in which hyper-accountable leadership emerges naturally. At the moment, the centralization Morozov speaks of is residual, because despite the emergence of p2p empowerment, it’s just getting started. Between now and then ,what I call the “meso-period”, you’ll see all sorts of quasi-centralization/decentralization, or smaller more numerous centralized players vying for dominance, but any hold/glue those players have will continue to dissipate, as decentralization continues to accelerate.

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