New ideas in how we should govern ourselves, or new models for economic production, are inevitably going to come out of unlikely places, where extreme conditions or new technological platforms make those new ideas imaginable for the first time.

New governances

“Maybe the next radical idea in governance is being hatched right now in some gameworld somewhere, given the openness to experimentation and new possibilities that games have always afforded us. Whatever the actual context turns out to be, if history is any guide, those new ideas will first take hold in an environment that will seem remote and implausible to most of us, beyond the pale, figuratively—or literally—out to sea.” says Steven Johnson. In his article, he makes a surprising but very interesting parallel between the Pirates Code of Conduct and the new models of governance brought by the blockchain technologies. What I like about his perspective is the field of possibilities that it opens our mind to. Web 2.0 made it very easy to connect with people, Web 3.0 will facilitate the way we can build micro-societies. Who knows, maybe a model will prove its stability and efficiency?