if I grok this DAO correctly, it seems to be a bundle of people saying we will dev/curate dapps and proposals, governed by voting rights entrenched to DOA's owned.
Sort of like saying we will have the best bundle of smart "wdigets" under he DOA ubrella and the combined funding to back it.
Sort of like an aggregation/funds management service based in the Etherium.
If this is right then it seems the headless chicken of Eth did not have sufficient emergent properties to see this spontaneously arise, and DAO is there to try and rectify that. I am not saying this is bad, just the ETH is too knew for most models to adapt.
However given that around 10% of eth or more is in DAO, this looks open to another interpretation.
It sort of a like a mastercoin to made safe jump on a massive scale.
It seems Eth was widely more successful the the creators thought and they wanted to get some ETH back. So they invented dao.
If much more that 10% of Eth are collected, I wonder how well eth can function given the block or Eth in relatively small hands....if it get to 20%+ % then what?
its looking like DAO can dictate ETH terms, and this is a sort of reverse take over of ETH by DAO.
Maybe it will all work out for the better and I can see the logic of DOA to finally Make IOT more than a sticker name buzz word....
however I have been around too long to not have developed some health cynicism.
That said you may be forced to jump on the DAO boat at this point if you have ETH.
Yes, the DAO could exert a great deal of power over ETH. However, the chances are pretty good that the DAO will not be having constant kumbaya moments. The chances are pretty good that eventually there will be one or more schisms, so there will be more than one DAO, or many will just split on their own and retrieve their share of the ETH. Also, there is a chance that the proposals end up causing more losses than gains, so the DAOs influence would lessen.