I would like to bring our attention back to the ways in which Web3, this emerging ecosystem of Bitcoin/Ethereum/Blockchain/Crypto technology (I will use these terms interchangeably, despite their not having identical meanings), is triggering the emergence of a new anthropological space of collective knowledge, intelligence, self-governance, and self-coordination. The possibilities…

In a social experiment carried out in the early nineties, vividly described by Kevin Kelly in his Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World, graphics wizard Loren Carpenter set up a nest of computers to display, in numerical and geometrical shapes, the collective…

By now you will probably be aware that my notion of a sustainable world revolves around the idea of an ecosystem — not just any ecosystem, but a healthy, regenerative, self-organized, and -reliant one through which communities manage resources (both depletable and replenishable) with minimal or no dependence on either…

Man is a seed and the world is his apple; and just as the seed fares in the apple, so does man fare in the world, which surrounds him. Paracelsus What is a code? In law, it’s a corpus containing several laws or provisions. In informatics, it’s a system of…

Designing for regeneration and holistic change According to Charles Darwin, it is not the strongest or the most intelligent who survive, but those who are most responsive to change. Humankind as a species could do worse than remember this famous quote and embrace its underlying notions, as it hurtles towards an unprecedented, staggering change of the…

Language as witness to change. As a consequence of it, driven by complexity and chaos. As a catalyst, at the same time, for a new order. As a phenomenon triggered by crisis, by systemic interaction, by the point of no return humankind currently finds itself at. As plates shift and…

“The word “commons” has many meanings” But it also refers to the institutional order for the exploitation of (generally limited) communal or common resources, which is the meaning we intend to delve into…” the woman with straight white hair was telling the man that appeared to be several years younger…

They came, a whirlwind of foreign voices, pressing hurry and cell phones, to ask for a despacho ceremony — an offering to Pachamama, the Mother Earth, and to our ancestors the Apus, the volcanos that crown the desert towards the east. Phonies, I thought, half-amused — phonies wanting a make-believe…