Grassroots Digital Democracy
summary
Argues the Internet today functions like a feudal system and blames missing computer‑science foundations, not people, for that failure. Proposes a third architecture called Grassroots: smartphone‑to‑smartphone apps with no third parties, a design where each user controls their social graph and authored content, mathematically defined Grassroots social networking and Grassroots cryptocurrencies that create liquidity from mutual trust to bank the unbanked, plus scalable federated assemblies by sortition; all are proven in papers but not yet shipped as software.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00The origins of the web
- 1:45Digital feudalism
- 3:02The failure of current systems
- 4:56Grassroots architecture
- 7:04Mathematical foundations
- 9:20Scalable digital democracy
- 11:31Future outlook and Q&A
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