This episode is with Arthur Brock and Fernandana Ibarra of Holochain and the Commons Engine. Ferananda and Arthur have been working for over a decade as visionary social innovators in the space of currency design and decentralized technologies that are fit for ushering in the emerging post-industrial economy.

Currently they are launching Holochain, a paradigm-busting sustainable alternative to blockchain. Holochain, based on principles of nature and living systems, is growing an ecosystem of truly P2P distributed applications. We discuss why this is so important in light the pernicious issues of surveillance capitalism that the film the Social Dilemma brought to awareness yet how the film came up short in its proposed solutions.

In this episode we explore the intersection of technology and consciousness and their möbius strip relationship in our cultural evolution. We talk about how centralized technologies inherently concentrate power but that we can choose new means of human coordination and signaling that are more life-affirming and that can enable a flourishing of human creativity.

This episode is sponsored by Earth Altars: http://www.earthaltars.com/

Music is “No, really. Everything is fine. ” by Aaron Ximm https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/

Links of mentions and rabbit holes to jump into:

Video about Holo and Holochain: https://bit.ly/3h6B2MJ

Holo: https://holo.host/

Holochain: https://holochain.org/ and how does Holochain work? https://bit.ly/2KM2Gm4

Commons Engine: https://commonsengine.org/

Currency Masterclass: https://commonsengine.org/packagedmasterclass/

Coventina Foundation (formerly CEPTR): https://ceptr.org/

JustOne Organics: https://justoneorganics.com/

Holochain Ecosystem (Happs — distributed apps being built on Holochain)

Junto (human-centered social media platform): https://junto.foundation/

Hylo (another social media platform for community organization): https://www.hylo.com/

Kizuna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SskgD45STwg

Tons of videos to learn more on the Holochain Youtube channel: https://bit.ly/3axAxtR