Diplomatic World_nummer 56.

DECENTRALIZED DAVOS AND
DECENTRALISTS TRANSFORM DAVOS
INTO A DECENTRALIZED EVENT
“Upper classes can’t, lower classes don’t want to.
Only when the ’lower classes’ do not want to live
in the old way and when the ’upper classes’
cannot carry on in the old way – only then can
revolution triumph.”
V.I. Lenin
A 100 years ago, there was a Revolution throughout the
World/in Europe/in Russia. Or as modern innovators would
say: there was a Transformation; a change of a regime,
management and consciousness.
A 100 years ago, revolutionaries of that time met in
apartments and at special events in Switzerland, where
they discussed a new Life in new forms of its manifestation.
Their eyes sparkled, and those sparks could burst to flames.
The things they were uncomfortable with were inequality,
complete political lawlessness, police and legal mayhem.
At the same time of the traditional annual meeting of the
upper classes, in those years, other young people gathered,
very similar to those pioneers.
The upper classes cannot carry on in the old way. Problems
are everywhere and there are no solutions.
A year ago there was a postulate that Capitalism was dead and
technology would save all and everyone.
This year they say that in general everything is bad and that
technology will save no one. Technology is evil, while gender
equality and humanism are the world’s bases.
They wanted issues and problems to be solved collectively, by
everyone, by agreement, and for everyone to be involved in a
new society of equality that would allow even “a lady-cook to
administer the affairs of the state (states)”. As today’s MVP
starters would say, they conducted pre-ICO, a kind of PCO of
that time (Private Coin Offering).
In order to make everything work as it should, they needed
one more thing: the appropriate technological solutions. Like
all pioneers, the first movers had to die for the glory of future
generations (who are often the second movers). After all, the
results have been achieved by those who follow the pioneers’
traces, walk over their bodies, learn from mistakes and have
the latest technology in their hands. Google was not the first
search engine and iTunes was not the first online music store.
That is the pioneers’ fate.
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100 years on.
The same Switzerland. Davos.
Alexander Shulgin with Joe Lubin (Co-founder of Etherium and
ConsenSys)