Comments on: Emergence, Crisis, and Replacement of the Era of Decentralized Networks https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/emergence-crisis-and-replacement-of-the-era-of-decentralized-networks-2/2012/06/17 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:42:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/emergence-crisis-and-replacement-of-the-era-of-decentralized-networks-2/2012/06/17/comment-page-1#comment-492247 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:42:39 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=24514#comment-492247 In reply to Mark Svenson.

traditionally, as in ‘like Paul Baran’, one distinguishes between regimes with one centralized power … regimes where different powers compete (decentralisation) and regimes where peers can freely interconnect without permission (distribution).

]]> By: Mark Svenson https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/emergence-crisis-and-replacement-of-the-era-of-decentralized-networks-2/2012/06/17/comment-page-1#comment-492239 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 01:19:21 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=24514#comment-492239 I say this to the author, “The word decentralization does not mean what you think it means”. In fact I have absolutely no idea what the word “decentralization” means as he is using it – it makes no sense whatsoever. He says, “..of going from a world in which power is decentralized to a world in which power is distributed.” How is power decentralized? We currently have a vast centralization of power and rigid hierarchies throughout the political world. Central organizations everywhere dominate the political and economic landscape – The World Bank, IMF, The European Union, GATT, NATO, NAFTA, do I need to go on?

Where I agree with the author is yes, power is becoming more evenly distrubuted, but to me that is exactly the same thing as decentralization. Like I said, the author has a very, very weird idea of what decentralization means. Definitely the most confusing article I’ve read in months.

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