This week I talk with four brilliant people working in and around the study of complex systems about the World Wide Web’s co-evolution with cryptocurrencies and other distributed ledger technologies: the promise AND the peril; the good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s a hugely complicated topic and there wasn’t enough time in this panel for Complexity Weekend (recorded on 14 November 2021) for everyone to get on the same page, much less come to a final agreement about anything — but the real value of discussions like these lies in the tension between perspectives, and the intertidal zone is fertile, here, indeed.

You can watch the unedited panel recording on YouTube (but I recommend listening instead, as the work that went into editing this was immense).

For the COMPLETE show notes, including copious additional learning resources, find this episode on Patreon.

More About Our Guests:

Park Bach

RESEARCHER AT FIGMENT.IO; LIBRARIAN AT GITCOIN

Coordination Problems • Initial Conditions • Emergent Intent • Group Priority

Siddhant Shrivastava

RESEARCHER AT SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN’S iTRUST CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN CYBER SECURITY

Cyber-physical Systems Security • Extended Reality • Distributed Teams • Workforce Training • Telerobotics

Avel Guénin-Carlut

FOUNDER AT KAIROS RESEARCH; RESEARCH COORDINATOR AT ACTIVE INFERENCE LAB

Physics of Life • Cultural Evolution • Epistemology • Active Inference • Consciousness 

Shirley Bekins, MPA

INDEPENDENT WRITER AND RESEARCHER

Systems Feedbacks • Path Dependence • Poverty • Homelessness 

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