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Topic: 2012-11-08 TEDxBologna: Network Society: The Coming Societal Phase Change (Read 812 times)

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decentralized energy production (massive solar power everywhere), decentralized food production (vertical farming), decentralized anything production (3D-printing) and decentralized money (Bitcoin).

Another needed pillar is decentralized communications infrastructure.  e.g., mesh networks and private peering  ...  see The Free Network Foundation for that:
 - http://TheFNF.org

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxDnQK95GXE

This talk in Italian (with English subtitles) by David Orban. He describes his vision of a Network Society based on the the four pillars of decentralized energy production (massive solar power everywhere), decentralized food production (vertical farming), decentralized anything production (3D-printing) and decentralized money (Bitcoin).

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The transition from a centralized management of finance to a distributed management of finance that is no longer dependent on decisions that we assume independent but which very often are politically influenced and instrumental can find an answer in mathematical innovation and technology applied to finance.
One example of which is Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a type of electronic money anonymous, secure and untraceable whose production is not in the hands of a central authority but is distributed.
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