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The Big Idea: changing how power is distributed changes everything. And I do mean everything.
We have a strange relationship with power. For most of our history, actual power — political, economic, military, even social — has largely belonged to someone other than ourselves. Sometimes that bothers us, but a lot of times we’ve been OK with that — as long as we get some protection or security out of the deal. We’ve been making that agreement with the powerful since the Bronze Age, if not before (my ancient history is rusty these days).
But what happens when a radically new way to distribute power both hands that power to us… but also makes us more exposed to a volatile and complex world? Do we rush back behind the skirts of old-school power, or do we figure out new ways to work and collaborate and take control of our lives and communities in a radically new way?
That’s the challenge in front of us right now. And if you look across the world
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