The pains of our digital future

The current global ecosystem is not built for stability - it's more; created for assholes by assholes. Meaning that it incentivise and lauds destructive behaviour like greed. Or to be more precise - the current ecosystem gives a competitive edge for dark personality traits. Traits that can be effective when perceived from the individual, but are really destructive from a systemic point of view. The ecosystem is however remarkably stable in spite of everything we do to wreck it, possibly making the fall even higher when it eventually collapses.

To make the ecosystem more robust we should build incentives for constructive behaviour into the very infrastructure. This must be constructed in a way that ensures that entities in the ecosystem does not spiral away in negative or positive feedback loops, which leads to singularities or collapses. Any solution must also take into account that we humans possess both positive and negative traits. We should nurture the positive ones and discourage negatives - with as little static rules as possible. 

Although it seems like a lot of people does not recognise that the individual is important, we are what drives the ecosystem. Empowering the individual will create the foundation for an ecosystem  that has much higher potential value than the current silo-based one. To achieve this we need to develop means for each individual to live and thrive in the Digisphere.

At the foundation of the ecosystem we need functionality to protect the individuals privacy and control of own value creation. For this we need to agree on a protocol. This protocol should be as simple as possible while versatile enough to embed all the needed tool. 

This is what we try to address with the Cell Protocol. To ensure that no particular entity gets defining power over the protocol, it must be owned by all users of the protocol - The Commons - and made available as public goods.

To help this transition organisations like The Digipomps Foundation - where it's purpose is stated in the foundation’s constitution - may be utilised when there is need for a trusted partner. 

However - tools for giving the individual control is not enough. It is vitally important to incentivise positive and constructive behaviour. Otherwise the aforementioned edge for destructive traits will persist og we may end up in a Lord of the rings situation where the ruling ring binds all and lead us strait into a singularity.

For this we propose the Purpose Framework which builds upon the Cell Protocol to construct a web-of-trust and more human like digital interactions.

Read about the Cell Protocol and Purpose Framework in upcoming articles. (I need a knife in the ass to actually get the writing done…)